## CryptoDB

### Emanuel M. Popovici

#### Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2005
CHES
2005
EPRINT
In this paper the benefits of implementation of the Tate pairing computation in dedicated hardware are discussed. The main observation lies in the fact that arithmetic architectures in the extension field $GF(3^{6m})$ are good candidates for parallelization, leading to a similar calculation time in hardware as for operations over the base field $GF(3^m)$. Using this approach an architecture for the hardware implementation of the Tate pairing calculation based on a modified Duursma-Lee algorithm is proposed.
2005
EPRINT
Encryption algorithms are becoming more necessary to ensure data is securely transmitted over insecure communication channels. FOX is a recently developed algorithm and its structure is based on the already proven IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm) cipher. FOX is a symmetric (private key) block cipher. Its top-level structure uses the Lai-Massey scheme and the round functions used in the scheme are substitution permutation networks (SPN). Its flexibility lies in the fact that it can be efficiently implemented in hardware and software. We report some of the first results of implementing the cipher on an FPGA.

#### Coauthors

Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (2)
Tim Kerins (2)
William P. Marnane (2)
Colm O'Keeffe (1)