An Analysis of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC) Architecture for Hardware Security

Hardware security recreates an important part of protecting devices and data from stealing. Hardware-based security solutions deliver better security than software security, which is essential in today's handheld devices. However, hardware trustworthiness has become in this work, and the widely used Public Key Cryptography (PKC)algorithms such as RSA and ECC have been studied and implemented to emphasizetheir importance in data security. The VLSI architecture for the Fast Modular Exponentiation Algorithm (FMEA) and its implementation in the RSA algorithmare presented. Implementation of ECC over GF(p) with underlying mathematical fields is also discussed. The architecture is described using Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language), synthesized and verified in ZED (Zynq Evaluation and Development) Board (XC7Z020CLG484-1).