2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
ECC2K-130 on NVIDIA GPUs
Authors : Daniel J. Bernstein, Hsieh-Chung Chen, Chen-Mou Cheng, Tanja Lange, Ruben Niederhagen, Peter Schwabe, Bo-Yin Yang
Published in: Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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A major cryptanalytic computation is currently underway on multiple platforms, including standard CPUs, FPGAs, PlayStations and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), to break the Certicom ECC2K-130 challenge. This challenge is to compute an elliptic-curve discrete logarithm on a Koblitz curve over
$\mathbb{F}_{2^{131}}$
. Optimizations have reduced the cost of the computation to approximately 2
77
bit operations in 2
61
iterations.
GPUs are not designed for fast binary-field arithmetic; they are designed for highly vectorizable floating-point computations that fit into very small amounts of static RAM. This paper explains how to optimize the ECC2K-130 computation for this unusual platform. The resulting GPU software performs more than 63 million iterations per second, including 320 million
$\mathbb{F}_{2^{131}}$
multiplications per second, on a $500 NVIDIA GTX 295 graphics card. The same techniques for finite-field arithmetic and elliptic-curve arithmetic can be reused in implementations of larger systems that are secure against similar attacks, making GPUs an interesting option as coprocessors when a busy Internet server has many elliptic-curve operations to perform in parallel.