Naccache, David; M’Raïhi, David; Wolfowicz, William; Di Porto, Adina Are crypto-accelerators really inevitable? 20 bit zero-knowledge in less than a second on simple 8-bit microcontrollers. (English) Zbl 0973.94523 Guillou, Louis C. (ed.) et al., Advances in cryptology - EUROCRYPT ’95. International conference on the theory and application of cryptographic techniques, Saint-Malo, France, May 21-25, 1995. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 921, 404-412 (1995). This paper describes in detail a recent smart-card prototype that performs a 20-bit zero-knowledge identification in less than one second on a simple 8-bit microcontroller without any dedicated crypto-engine aboard.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0866.00067]. Cited in 1 Review MSC: 94A60 Cryptography 94A62 Authentication, digital signatures and secret sharing PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. Naccache} et al., Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 921, 404--412 (1995; Zbl 0973.94523)