Public key accelerator (PKA) RM0453
698/1450 RM0453 Rev 5
supplied before starting the operation. Performance improvement is detailed in
Section 24.5.2: Computation times.
The operations using fast mode are modular exponentiation and scalar multiplication.
24.3.5 Typical applications for PKA
Introduction
The PKA can be used to accelerate a number of public key cryptographic functions. In
particular:
• RSA encryption and decryption
• RSA key finalization
• CRT-RSA decryption
• DSA and ECDSA signature generation and verification
• DH and ECDH key agreement
Specifications of the above functions are given in following publications:
• FIPS PUB 186-4, Digital Signature Standard (DSS), July 2013 by NIST
• PKCS #1, RSA Cryptography Standard, v1.5, v2.1 and v2.2. by RSA Laboratories
• IEEE1363-2000, IEEE Standard Specifications for Public-Key Cryptography, January
2000
• ANSI X9.62-2005, Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry, The
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), November 2005
The principles of the main functions are described in this section, for a more detailed
description refer to the above cited documents.
RSA key pair
For following RSA operations a public key and a private key information are defined as
below:
• Alice transmits her public key (n, e) to Bob. Numbers n and e are very large positive
integers.
• Alice keeps secret her private key d, also a very large positive integer. Alternatively this
private key can also be represented by a quintuple (p, q, dp, dq, qInv).
For more information on above representations refer to the RSA specification.
RSA encryption/decryption principle
As recommended by the PKCS#1 specification, Bob, to encrypt message M using Alice’s
public key (n, e) must go through the following steps:
1. Compute the encoded message EM = ENCODE(M), where ENCODE is an encoding
method.
2. Turn EM into an integer m, with 0 ≤ m < n and (m, n) being co-primes.
3. Compute ciphertext c = m
e
mod n.
4. Convert the integer c into a string ciphertext C.
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