Resource Centric Analysis of RSA and ECC Algorithms on FPGA

Electronics and Communication Engineering, PES University, Bengaluru, India

Abstract

The electronics industry’s shadow side is counterfeiting, and the doom is growing. Almost every business in the supply chain is impacted by the issue, including component suppliers, distributors, Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) providers, Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and their clients. In fact, any electronics firm that wishes to benefit from the cheap costs associated with globalization must be aware that someone along the supply chain may be persuaded to acquire fake items and sell them as genuine. A thorough grasp of chip designs, including partitioning and prioritizing data transit and storage, as well as a range of obfuscation techniques and activity monitoring, is necessary to reduce the danger of future hardware breaches. To battle this problem, we need to enforce various security measures at different levels of the supply chain. The recent methods include implementing cryptographic ciphers into the devices. The commonly used ciphers are the hard ciphers. But owing to the advancements and increase in the number of low power and resource constrained devices, there has been a dire need to design ciphers that support such devices. This paper talks about the advantages of lightweight ciphers, aiming to secure low power devices and other embedded devices. This work mainly compares two algorithms, RSA(hard cipher) and ECC(light cipher) in terms of their device utilization and power consumption on a Kintex-7. The presented results are justified from simulations performed on the Vivado design suite.