Asynchronous hardware implementations for crypto primitives
MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS
Authors: Bashi, Mohamed Asan M.; Shukla, Sandeep K.
Abstract
Cryptography plays a major role in all the modern applications, where the Galois field (GF) arithmetic circuits are inevitable. In this paper, asynchronous GF(2(m)) and m-bits GF(p) multiplier, inverter, and exponentiator are proposed, where the hardware is repeatedly reused for m iterations without synchronous registers (m = log(2)p). Also, this paper proposes an asynchronous implementation of GF(2(163)) affine coordinate based ECC scalar multiplication that includes the point addition and point doubling. Here, the inverse is calculated using Fermat's Little theorem. The entire scalar multiplication is done using only two GF(2(163)) multipliers without any hardware registers that are replaced by a completion detection logic. The same proposed logic is used in the asynchronous 128-bits AES design. The power dissipation of these proposed designs are much less than the existing designs due to the elimination of synchronous registers. Our proposed asynchronous logic is free from the glitches and metastability. The proposed asynchronous GF(2(16)) multiplier design achieves 99.6% of improvement in switching power reduction than scalable Montgomery [5] based multiplier using 45 nm CMOS technology. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Zircon U-Pb and molybdenite Re-Os geochronology and geochemistry of Jinchang porphyry gold-copper deposit, NE China: Two-phase mineralization and the tectonic setting
ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS
Authors: Cai, Wen-yan; Wang, Zhi-gao; Li, Jian; Fu, Li-juan; Wang, Ke-yong; Konare, Yassa; Li, Shun-da
Abstract
Whether multiple mineralization styles in porphyry deposits are the result of one or multiple pulses of magmatism is unknown. In this paper, we present new age and geochemical data on the Jinchang porphyry gold-copper (Au-Cu) deposit, an important deposit in NE China and in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Field geological study suggests that both the mineralization and ore-causative magmatism at Jinchang are multiphase. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of the monzogranite ore host yielded 197 +/- 1 Ma, which is considerably older than the ore-causative monzonite (115 +/- 3 Ma) and granodiorite (107 +/- 2 Ma). Molybdenite Re-Os dating on the breccia pipe-hosted Au-Cu ores yielded a well-defined isochron age of 114 +/- 3 Ma, coeval to the monzonite emplacement. The Au-Cu mineralization was followed by another phase of crypto-explosive breccia pipe-hosted, disseminated/vein-type Au mineralization. This Au-only mineralization phase was auriferous pyrite Re-Os dated to be 103-101 Ma, coeval to the granodiorite emplacement. Geochemically, the monzonite and granodiorite are enriched in LILEs and LREEs, but depleted in HFSEs and HREEs. The ore-causative rocks are I-type and display continental arc geochemical affinities. We suggest that the monzonite and granodiorite were generated in an intracontinental extensional setting, probably caused by the Early Cretaceous subduction roll-back of the Paleo-Pacific Plate.