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Eros Camacho-Ruiz, Pablo Navarro-Torrero, Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya
A Framework for designing High-Order Side-Channel Protected Hardware Implementations of ML-KEM
Informatics

ML-KEM (formerly Kyber) has recently been adopted as FIPS 203 in the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization process. While existing...

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This paper presents a significant contribution to the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography hardware implementations by addressing a critical security vu...

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Hiroshi Amagasa, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma
AVX2 Implementation of QR-UOV for Modern x86 Processors
Cryptography

QR-UOV is a multivariate signature scheme selected as one of the candidates in the second round of the NIST PQC Additional Digital Signatur...

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The paper "AVX2 Implementation of QR-UOV for Modern x86 Processors" presents a timely and highly relevant contribution to the field of post-quantum cr...

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Stef Halmans, Christine van Vredendaal, Tobias Schneider, Frank Custers, Tim Güneysu
TWFalcon: Triple-Word Arithmetic for Falcon
Cryptography

The post-quantum signature scheme Falcon is an attractive scheme for constrained devices due to its compactness and verification performanc...

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Yifan Dong, YoungBeom Kim, Jieyu Zheng, Zhichuang Liang, Boyue Fang, Seog Chung Seo, Maire O’Neill, Yunlei Zhao
Lightweight PQ KEM and Hybrid MQTT Protocol for 8-bit AVR Sensor Nodes
Cryptography

Most PQC schemes remain too resource-intensive for ultra-constrained 8-bit AVR wireless sensor nodes. In this work, we present a comprehens...

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This paper tackles the critical challenge of deploying Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) on severely resource-constrained 8-bit AVR wireless sensor node...

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DongHyun Shin, YoungBeom Kim, Ayesha Khalid, Maire O’Neill, Seog Chung Seo
Optimized Implementations of Keccak, Kyber, and Dilithium on the MSP430 Microcontroller
Informatics

Post-Quantum cryptography (PQC) typically requires more memory and computational power than conventional public-key cryptography. Until now...

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Ruben Niederhagen, Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham
Improving ML-KEM and ML-DSA on OpenTitan
Cyber

This work improves upon the instruction set extension proposed in the paper “Towards ML-KEM and ML-DSA on OpenTitan”, in short OTBNTW, for...

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This paper presents a compelling advancement in the hardware acceleration of post-quantum cryptographic schemes, ML-KEM and ML-DSA, on the OpenTitan p...

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Ming-Shing Chen, Chun-Ming Chiu, Chun-Tao Peng, Bo-Yin Yang
Accelerating HQC with Additive FFT
Cryptography

This paper presents an accelerated implementation of the Hamming Quasi-Cyclic (HQC) key encapsulation mechanism by leveraging additive Fast...

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Marie Bolzer, Sébastien Duval, Marine Minier
A Tool for Lightweight (AND, XOR) Implementations of Large-Degree S-boxes
Cryptography

We propose a new ad hoc automatic tool to look for lightweight implementations of non-linear functions on up to 7 variables. This tool is m...

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This paper proposes a novel "ad hoc automatic tool" aimed at discovering lightweight implementations of non-linear functions, particularly cryptograph...

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Harry Hart, Puja Mondal, Suparna Kundu, Supriya Adhikary, Angshuman Karmakar, Chaoyun Li
Lightening CROSS: Memory Optimized Implementations of CROSS
Informatics

Digital signature schemes derived from non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proofs are rapidly gaining prominence within post-quantum cryp...

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Keng-Yu Chen, Ming Qing Ching, Jiun-Peng Chen, Bo-Yin Yang
When Masking Multiplication Isn’t Enough: Exploiting Floating-Point Leakage in Falcon’s Pre-Image Computation
Cryptography

In this paper, we present an improved correlation power analysis (CPA) attack on the pre-image computation of the digital signature scheme...

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This paper presents a significant advancement in correlation power analysis (CPA) attacks targeting the pre-image computation of the Falcon digital si...

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