New Speed Records for Montgomery Modular Multiplication on 8-Bit AVR Microcontrollers

@inproceedings{Liu2014NewSR,
  title={New Speed Records for Montgomery Modular Multiplication on 8-Bit AVR Microcontrollers},
  author={Zhe Liu and Johann Gro{\ss}sch{\"a}dl},
  booktitle={International Conference on Cryptology in Africa},
  year={2014}
}
Modular multiplication of large integers is a performance-critical arithmetic operation of many public-key cryptosystems such as RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman (DH) and their elliptic curve-based variants ECDSA and ECDH. The computational cost of modular multiplication and related operations (e.g. exponentiation) poses a practical challenge to the widespread deployment of public-key cryptography, especially on embedded devices equipped with 8-bit processors (smart cards, wireless sensor nodes, etc… 
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