High-speed high-security signatures

D.J. Bernstein, N. Duif, T. Lange, P. Schwabe, B.Y. Yang

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Abstract

This paper shows that a $390 mass-market quad-core 2.4GHz Intel Westmere (Xeon E5620) CPU can create 109000 signatures per second and verify 71000 signatures per second on an elliptic curve at a 2^128 security level. Public keys are 32 bytes, and signatures are 64 bytes. These performance figures include strong defenses against software side-channel attacks: there is no data flow from secret keys to array indices, and there is no data flow from secret keys to branch conditions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)77-89
JournalJournal of Cryptographic Engineering
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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