Implementation of elliptic curve cryptography for 8-bit and 32-bit embedded systems - time efficiency and power consumption analysis

摘要

Results of research thaf compares possibilities of securing transmission from biomedical embedded telemetry devices with elliptic curve cryptography algorithms performed on 8-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers is presented in the paper. The review of possible ways of implementing cryptographic protocols based on elliptic curves in embedded systems with usage of commercial MIRACL library and open-source GMP arithmetic library was performed. We have used MIRACL library to compare time efficiency and energy costs of elliptic curve point multiplication on selected AVR and ARM embedded platforms. Additionally we have implemented basic ECC library based on open-source GMP library for ARM microcontrollers to check efficiency of algorithms based on different number representations. Results obtained during the work showed that despite of the fact that selected ARM microcontroller active supply current is higher than selected AVR device active supply current, total energy cost associated with elliptic point curve multiplication is much smaller in case of ARM microcontrollers.