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Hardware acceleration for post-quantum cryptography

Flavio Tanese

Hardware acceleration for post-quantum cryptography.

Rel. Guido Masera, Maurizio Martina. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica (Electronic Engineering), 2018

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Abstract:

Communication security of today heavily relies on the assumption that some mathematical problems are extremely difficult to solve and thus breaking encryptions based on such problems requires a very long time. While such encryptions are secure now, the probable diffusion of quantum computers in the foreseeable future makes the initial assumption fall short: quantum computations are efficient at breaking the most widespread algorithms in use. Post-quantum cryptographic systems are based on problems that are not (or marginally) affected by the peculiarity of quantum computing: AES and many other hashing functions fall in this category, with quantum operations just moving the problem from O(N) to O(sqrt(N)), with N being the number of operations needed to find a solution. This is effectively countered by using double the number of bits and squaring the complexity. Other proposals are based on variations of error-correctiong codes used in data transmission, so that the data is encoded and errors are purposely introduced in the encrypted version. With no a priori knowledge on the location of such errors, reverse-engineering the generation matrix becomes a very arduous task, making the system de facto equivalent to the prime-based asymmetric key system in use today but without the vulnerability to quantum attacks. This work is focused on a hardware implementation of such a system, for use in low power applications that are likely to generate the bulk of encrypted traffic in the near future.

Relators: Guido Masera, Maurizio Martina
Academic year: 2018/19
Publication type: Electronic
Number of Pages: 87
Subjects:
Corso di laurea: Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica (Electronic Engineering)
Classe di laurea: New organization > Master science > LM-29 - ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Aziende collaboratrici: UNSPECIFIED
URI: http://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/id/eprint/9580
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