Vendor:
Nuclei System Technology
Category:
Public Key
Asymmetric cryptographic accelerator
The ACrypto Engine is an asymmetric cryptographic accelerator suitable for embedded application.
Overview
The ACrypto Engine is an asymmetric cryptographic accelerator suitable for embedded application. It provides capability for basic arithmetic and frequently used operations. Along with driver, it is flexible to support popular upperlayer applications.
Key features
- RSA
- RSA key size up to 8192
- RSA key pair generation
- ECC (including SM2)
- ECC curve in GF(đ) and GF(2đ)
- ECC key size up to 521 in GF(đ)
- ECC key size up to 571 in GF(2đ)
- Short-Weierstrass curve and Koblitz curve, including curves from standard NIST, brainpool, SEC 2 and SM2
- Montgomery curve 25519/448
- (Twisted) Edwards curve 25519/448
- Capability
- Big number arithmetic
- Asymmetric cryptographic operation
- Dual field processor in GF(đ) and GF(2đ) both
- Configurable system bus interface (register configuration bus)
- Configurable word size, either 32 or 64 bits
- Configurable SRAM depth
- Programmable size of operands from word size to 8192 bits
- Built-in operations open to user with rich control options facilitates building new applications
- Support the following applications when working with driver
- Key exchange scheme (DHKE, ECDH, X25519/X448)
- Encryption schemes (RSAES-OAEP, RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5, ECIES)
- Signature schemes (RSASSA-PSS, RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5, DSA, ECDSA, Ed25519/Ed448, SM2 signature)
- RSA CRT, Primality test
- Parameter
- Performance. RSA-2048 7.1M clocks, ECC-P256 0.42M clocks
- Silicon data. Under SMIC 40nm process, clock frequency is 230MHz, logic area is 92508đm2
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
ACRYP
Vendor
Nuclei System Technology
Type
Silicon IP
Files
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Provider
HQ:
China
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