Paper 2010/077

ECC2K-130 on Cell CPUs

Joppe W. Bos, Thorsten Kleinjung, Ruben Niederhagen, and Peter Schwabe

Abstract

This paper describes an implementation of Pollard's rho algorithm to compute the elliptic curve discrete logarithm for the Synergistic Processor Elements of the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture. Our implementation targets the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem defined in the Certicom ECC2K-130 challenge. We compare a bitsliced implementation to a non-bitsliced implementation and describe several optimization techniques for both approaches. In particular, we address the question whether normal-basis or polynomial-basis representation of field elements leads to better performance. Using our software, the ECC2K-130 challenge can be solved in one year using the Synergistic Processor Units of less than 2700 Sony Playstation~3 gaming consoles.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Implementation
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Cell Broadband Engine Architectureelliptic curve discrete logarithm problembinary-field arithmeticparallel Pollard rho
Contact author(s)
peter @ cryptojedi org
History
2010-02-16: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/077
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/077,
      author = {Joppe W.  Bos and Thorsten Kleinjung and Ruben Niederhagen and Peter Schwabe},
      title = {ECC2K-130 on Cell CPUs},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2010/077},
      year = {2010},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/077}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/077}
}
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