Post-Quantum Cryptography

This project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through #1850373.

The primary research objective of this project is to build efficient and secure implementations for lattice-based post-quantum cryptosystems. The project has also resulted in a hardware security graduate course at NC State with an emphasis on post-quantum cryptography. The project closely follows the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization efforts. 

Side-Channel Attack Setups

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PUBLICATIONS

An extensive study of flexible design methods for the number theoretic transform
Ahmet Can Mert, Emre Karabulut, Erdinc Ozturk, Erkay Savas, Aydin Aysu
Journal Paper IEEE Transactions on Computers (Early Access), Aug 2020.

RANTT: A RISC-V Architecture Extension for the Number Theoretic Transform
Emre Karabulut and Aydin Aysu
Conference Paper 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Aug-Sep 2020.

Teaching the Next Generation of Cryptographic Hardware Design to the Next Generation of Engineers
Aydin Aysu
Conference Paper Proceedings of the 2019 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, VA, USA, May 2019.

A Flexible and Scalable NTT Hardware : Applications from Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Ahmet Can Mert, Emre Karabulut, Erdinç Öztürk, Erkay Savaş, Michela Becchi, Aydin Aysu
Conference Paper Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Grenoble, France, Mar 2020.

Maskednet: The first hardware inference engine aiming power side-channel protection
Anuj Dubey, Rosario Cammarota, Aydin Aysu
Conference Paper IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), CA, USA, May 2020.

Accepted but not yet published papers:

iTimed: Cache Attacks on the Apple A10 Fusion SoC
Gregor Haas, Seetal Potluri, Aydin Aysu
Conference Paper IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) 2021.

FALCON Down: Breaking FALCON Post-Quantum Signature Scheme through Side-Channel Attacks
Emre Karabulut, Aydin Aysu
Conference Paper Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021.

Horizontal Side-Channel Leakages of Post-Quantum Key Exchange and Encapsulation Protocols
Furkan Aydin, Aydin Aysu, Mohit Tiwari, Andreas Gerstlauer, Michael Orshansky
Journal Paper ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) 2021.