On the Efficiency and Security of Quantum-resistant Key Establishment Mechanisms on FPGA Platforms

Lukas Malina, Sara Ricci, Patrik Dobias, Petr Jedlicka, Jan Hajny, Kim-Kwang Choo

2022

Abstract

The importance of designing efficient and secure post-quantum cryptographic algorithms is reinforced in the recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) competitions. Seeking to complement existing studies that evaluate the performance of various PQC algorithms, we explore current hardware implementations of third-round finalist key-establishment algorithms (i.e., Kyber, McEliece, NTRU, and SABER) and the five alternate algorithms (i.e., BIKE, FrodoKEM, HQC, NTRU Prime, and SIKE) on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platforms. Further, we present our pure-VHDL implementation of Kyber and compare it with the hardware implementations of the NIST finalists. Our design offers one universal Kyber component that can operate in 6 different modes. The evaluation findings show that our pure-VHDL Kyber provides less latency than current VHDL-based implementations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Malina L., Ricci S., Dobias P., Jedlicka P., Hajny J. and Choo K. (2022). On the Efficiency and Security of Quantum-resistant Key Establishment Mechanisms on FPGA Platforms. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-590-6, pages 605-613. DOI: 10.5220/0011294200003283

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt22,
author={Lukas Malina and Sara Ricci and Patrik Dobias and Petr Jedlicka and Jan Hajny and Kim-Kwang Choo},
title={On the Efficiency and Security of Quantum-resistant Key Establishment Mechanisms on FPGA Platforms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,},
year={2022},
pages={605-613},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011294200003283},
isbn={978-989-758-590-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,
TI - On the Efficiency and Security of Quantum-resistant Key Establishment Mechanisms on FPGA Platforms
SN - 978-989-758-590-6
AU - Malina L.
AU - Ricci S.
AU - Dobias P.
AU - Jedlicka P.
AU - Hajny J.
AU - Choo K.
PY - 2022
SP - 605
EP - 613
DO - 10.5220/0011294200003283