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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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Jinyi Qiu, Aydin Aysu

NTT-PEEL: Bit Shift Side-Channel in FALCON’s Number Theoretic Transform

Cyber

This work introduces a new single-trace side-channel attack against FALCON, a lattice-based post-quantum digital signature scheme recently...

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Tanvir Hossain, Matthew Showers, Mahmudul Hasan, Tamzidul Hoque

On the Security of Lightweight Homomorphic Obfuscation for Protecting Against Hardware Trojans

Cyber

Hardware Trojan (HT) attacks pose a critical threat to modern microelectronics by enabling the leakage of sensitive information, such as cr...

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The paper addresses a critical and growing concern in microelectronics security: Hardware Trojan (HT) attacks, particularly their threat to Commercial...

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Yijun Cui, Yang Chen, Bei Wang, Ziying Ni, Lixia Han, Fei Lyu, Chenghua Wang, Weiqiang Liu

DRR-NTT: Efficient NTT Accelerator in Lattice-Based Cryptography By Dimensionality Reduction in RRAM

Cryptography

Lattice-based cryptographic (LBC) algorithms, including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) schemes and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), rep...

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This paper introduces DRR-NTT, a novel RRAM-based compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerator designed to address the performance bottlenecks of Number Theore...

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Zhuo Huang, Weijia Wang, Xiaogang Zhou, Yu Yu

DPA-Style Attacks on HQC

Cyber

HQC (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic) was selected as the fifth algorithm in the NIST suite of post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) standards. As the only...

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This paper presents a significant contribution to the side-channel analysis of HQC, a code-based post-quantum cryptographic standard. Building upon th...

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GyuSang Kim, JeongHwan Lee, Myeonghoon Lee, Seokhie Hong, HeeSeok Kim

Secret Key Recovery of FALCON using Simple Power Analysis in Conditional Calculator

Cryptography

Among the NIST-standardized algorithms, FALCON is a lattice-based digital signature scheme that offers strong security and compactness. How...

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This paper presents a critical analysis of the FALCON digital signature scheme, a NIST-standardized lattice-based algorithm recognized for its strong...