MIT researchers crafted new energy-efficient chip that performs public key encryption for low power Internet-of-Things devices

Briefing

MIT researchers crafted new energy-efficient chip that performs public key encryption for low power Internet-of-Things devices

March 13, 2018

Briefing
  • New IoT Chip for Public Encryption – MIT engineers and computer scientists developed new chip that handles low-power public key encryption for Internet-of-Things devices
  • Energy Efficient – Consumes only 1/400 as much power as conventional software for public encryption, while using one-tenth as much memory and executing 500 times faster
  • Supports Multiple Standards – Designed to handle any elliptic curve, mathematical function that handles public encryption, where governments have variying standards for different curves
  • Power Reducing Techniques – Disintegrated cryptographic computation into parts, eliminated extra circuitry for smaller computations, created special inverter circuit which cuts power consumption, implemented datagram transport layer security protocol that reduces memory requirements, and incorporated general purpose processor that can be powered down when not in use

Accelerator
Computation and Storage, Cybersecurity, Internet-of-Things

Sector
Information Technology

Organization
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Source

Original Publication Date
February 12, 2018

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