Biblio

This paper presents a novel approach for a facial security system using elliptic curve cryptography. Face images extracted from input video are encrypted before sending to a remote server. The input face images are completely encrypted by mapping each pixel value of the detected face from the input video frame to a point on an elliptic curve. The original image can be recovered when needed using the elliptic curve cryptography decryption function. Specifically, we modify point multiplication designed for projective coordinates and apply the modified approach in affine coordinates to speed up scalar point multiplication operation. Image encryption and decryption operations are also facilitated using our existing scheme. Simulation results on Visual Studio demonstrate that the proposed systems help accelerate encryption and decryption operations while maintaining information confidentiality.

Public-key cryptography schemes are widely used due to their high level of security. As a very efficient one among public-key cryptosystems, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has been studied for years. Researchers used to improve the efficiency of ECC through point multiplication, which is the most important and complex operation of ECC. In our research, we use special families of curves and prime fields which have special properties. After that, we introduce the instruction set architecture (ISA) extension method to accelerate this algorithm (192-bit private key) and build an ECC\_ASIP model with six new ECC custom instructions. Finally, the ECC\_ASIP model is implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform. The persuasive experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of our new model in the aspects of the performance, the code storage space and hardware resources. Experimental results show that our processor improves 69.6% in the execution efficiency and requires only 6.2% more hardware resources.