A Low-Power BLS12-381 Pairing Crypto-Processor for Internet-of-Things Security Applications
Utsav Banerjee, Anantha P. Chandrakasan

TL;DR
This paper introduces a low-power, programmable BLS12-381 pairing crypto-processor optimized for IoT security, achieving significant energy savings and enhanced security against side-channel attacks.
Contribution
It presents the first BLS12-381 pairing crypto-processor tailored for IoT, with co-optimized arithmetic, security features, and programmability for diverse protocols.
Findings
Two orders of magnitude energy savings
Effective countermeasures against side-channel attacks
Flexible support for various elliptic curve protocols
Abstract
We present the first BLS12-381 elliptic curve pairing crypto-processor for Internet-of-Things (IoT) security applications. Efficient finite field arithmetic and algorithm-architecture co-optimizations together enable two orders of magnitude energy savings. We implement several countermeasures against timing and power side-channel attacks. Our crypto-processor is programmable to provide the flexibility to accelerate various elliptic curve and pairing-based protocols such as signature aggregation and functional encryption.
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