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 108000 signatures per second and verify 71000 signatures per second on an elliptic curve at a 2128 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
Title of host publicationCryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2011 (13th International Workshop, Nara, Japan, September 28–October 1, 2011. Proceedings)
EditorsB. Preneel, T. Takagi
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages124-142
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-23950-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume6917
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

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