A General Digit-Serial Architecture for Montgomery Modular Multiplication


Erdem S. S., Yanik T., ÇELEBİ A.

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, cilt.25, sa.5, ss.1658-1668, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/tvlsi.2017.2652979
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1658-1668
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Carry-save addition, carry-select addition, Montgomery modular multiplication, RSA cryptosystem
  • Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The Montgomery algorithm is a fast modular multiplication method frequently used in cryptographic applications. This paper investigates the digit-serial implementations of the Montgomery algorithm for large integers. A detailed analysis is given and a tight upper bound is presented for the intermediate results obtained during the digit-serial computation. Based on this analysis, an efficient digit-serial Montgomery modular multiplier architecture using carry save adders is proposed and its complexity is presented. In this architecture, pipelined carry select adders are used to perform two final tasks: adding carry save vectors representing the modular product and subtracting the modulus from this addition, if further reduction is needed. The proposed architecture can be designed for any digit size δ and modulus θ. This paper also presents logic formulas for the bits of the precomputation -θ-1 mod 2δ used in the Montgomery algorithm for δ ≤ 8. Finally, evaluation of the proposed architecture on Virtex 7 FPGAs is presented.