Paper 2011/239 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2011/239 ↗
Efficient Software Implementations of Modular Exponentiation
Abstract
RSA computations have a significant effect on the workloads of SSL/TLS servers, and therefore their software implementations on general purpose processors are an important target for optimization. We concentrate here on 512-bit modular exponentiation, used for 1024-bit RSA. We propose optimizations in two directions. At the primitives’ level, we study and improve the performance of an “Almost” Montgomery Multiplication. At the exponentiation level, we propose a method to reduce the cost of protecting the w-ary exponentiation algorithm against cache/timing side channel attacks. Together, these lead to an efficient software implementation of 512-bit modular exponentiation, which outperforms the currently fastest publicly available alternative. When measured on the latest x86-64 architecture, the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor, our implementation is 43% faster than that of the current version of OpenSSL (1.0.0d).
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- Preprint.
- History
- 2011-06-28: last updated
- 2011-05-18: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2011/239
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/239,
author = {Shay Gueron},
title = {Efficient Software Implementations of Modular Exponentiation},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/239},
year = {2011},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/239}
}