Security-enabled near-field communication tag with flexible architecture supporting asymmetric cryptography

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1965-1974

  Plos, Thomas ^a   Hutter, Michael ^a   Feldhofer, Martin ^a   Stiglic, Maksimiljan ^b   Cavaliere, Francesco ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^c AMS AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

8 b microcontroller; advanced encryption standard (AES); elliptic curve cryptography; elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA); embedded system; implementation security; near field communication (NFC); radio frequency identification (RFID); VLSI design

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD; ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELLIPTIC CURVE DIGITAL SIGNATURE ALGORITHM; IMPLEMENTATION SECURITY; NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION; VLSI DESIGN;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA PRIVACY; DESIGN; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SECURITY SYSTEMS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84884901656     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2012.2227849     Document Type: Article

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