Design and implementation of low area/power elliptic curve digital signature hardware core

Electronics (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Sghaier, Anissa ^a   Zeghid, Medien ^a,b   Massoud, Chiraz ^a   Machout, Mohsen ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

ASIC; Digital signature; Embedded systems; Hardware architecture; Low area; Low power; Optimization; Security analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024096563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics6020046     Document Type: Article

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