Patent 7693927 was granted and assigned to Jennic on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a data processing system comprising a first arithmetic unit comprising at least one finite field multiplier and at least one finite field adder for selectively performing at least two finite field arithmetic calculations; the data processing system comprising means to use a previous finite field arithmetic calculation result in a current finite field arithmetic calculation to determine at least part of a polynomial.