%0 Journal Article %T Cryptographic applications in FPGA %A Deschamps %A J.-P. %J Latin American applied research %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper describes circuits for executing the most complex operations of public-key cryptography and gives estimations of their execution time within field programmable devices. the following operations are considered: mod n exponentiation, mod p division, mod f(x) multiplication of polynomials, mod f(x) division of polynomials and point multiplication over an elliptic curve. %K public-key cryptography %K finite fields %K arithmetic %K programmable devices %K fpga. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0327-07932007000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en