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Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is widely used as an efficient mechanism to secure private data using public-key protocols. This paper focuses on ECC over prime fields (GF(p)). We present a novel hardware architecture that calculates the elliptic curve point multiplication (ECPM). Our processor supports arbitrary prime fields with sizes up to 1024 bits. Different standards, which use curves in short...