A Low-Power Parallel Architecture for Finite Galois Field GF(2 m ) Arithmetic Operations for Elliptic Curve Cryptography Esmaeil Amini*, Zahra Jeddi, Ahmed Khattab, and Magdy Bayoumi The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA {exa2685, zxj4791, akk6481, mab}@cacs.louisiana.edu * Corresponding author: Esmaeil Amini Address: University of Louisiana at Lafayette The Center for Advanced Computer Studies PO Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504, USA Office : (337) 482-6338 Fax : (337) 482-5791 Email : exa2685@cacs.louisiana.edu