An Elliptic Curve Cryptography Acceleration Core for OpenVPN on an FPGA Softcore

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) performance is a major performance bottleneck when serving many VPN clients from a single server on a low-frequency FPGA softcore CPU. Using an area-efficient Elliptic Curve Point (ECP) multiplication accelerator core on the same FGPA, a much higher amount of clients can be served using the same FPGA chip. Using...