A representation of elements in F 2 m enabling unified field arithmetic for elliptic curve cryptography

In this letter we propose a change of representation for elements in F 2 m. The proposed representation is useful for architectures that implement unified Montgomery multiplication in finite fields F 2 m and F p used for elliptic curve cryptography since it transforms a standard F 2 m multiplication into a Montgomery multiplication and comes at virtually no cost in terms of conversion operations.