Using z14 fused-multiply-add instructions to accelerate elliptic curve cryptography

Due to growing commercial applications like Blockchain, the performance of large-integer arithmetic is the focus of both academic and industrial research. IBM introduced a new integer fused multiply-add instruction in z14, called VMSL, to accelerate such workloads.¹ Unlike their floating- oint counterparts, there are a variety of integer fused multiply-add instruction designs. VMSL multiplies two pairs of radix 2⁵⁶ inputs, sums the two results …