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2022
Viet Ba Dang defended his Ph.D. Thesis
Viet Ba Dang defended his Ph.D. Thesis, titled "Efficient and Secure Hardware Architectures and Software/Hardware Co-Designs for Post-Quantum Cryptography," on December 2, 2022. The members of his dissertation committee included Dr. Gaj (Chair), Dr. Kaps, Dr. Khasawneh, and Dr. Albanese. (12/03/2022)
Luke Beckwith and Duc Tri Nguyen spoke at the Fourth PQC Standardization Conference
Multiple members of CERG attended the Fourth PQC Standardization Conference held virtually on November 29-December 1, 2022. Luke Beckwith gave the talk "High-Performance Hardware Implementation of Lattice-Based Digital Signatures," based on the paper co-authored with Duc Tri Nguyen and Kris Gaj. Duc Tri Nguyen gave the presentation titled "Fast Falcon Signature Generation and Verification Using ARMv8 NEON Instructions," based on the paper co-authored with Kris Gaj. Additionally, the third CERG paper, "FPGA Energy Consumption of Post-Quantum Cryptography," was accepted without a presentation. All mentioned above presentations and papers can be found on the conference website. (12/02/2022)
CERG paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Computers
The CERG paper, titled "High-Speed Hardware Architectures and FPGA Benchmarking of CRYSTALS-Kyber, NTRU, and Saber," co-authored by Viet Ba Dang, Kamyar Mohajerani, and Kris Gaj, was published in the IEEE Transactions on Computers (Early Access) on November 17, 2022. (11/18/2022)
Dr. Gaj awarded a Commonwealth Cyber Initiative grant
Dr. Gaj was awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) for the project titled "Resurrecting SIKE: Developing and Implementing New Isogeny-Based Post-Quantum Schemes" The period of performance is January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. This project is a joint effort with Dr. Jason LeGrow from the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. (11/09/2022)
Dr. Gaj gave an invited talk at the VT-HBCU Quantum Partnership Workshop
Dr. Gaj participated in the Virginia Tech - Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Quantum Partnership workshop held in the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington on August 8-12, 2022. As a part of this workshop, Dr. Gaj gave a talk titled "Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Embedded Systems." (08/13/2022)
Abubakr Abdulgadir gave a talk at GLSVLSI 2022
Abubakr Abdulgadir gave a talk titled "Enhancing Information Security Courses With Remotely Accessible Side-Channel Analysis Setup" at 32nd ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI - GLSVLSI 2022, held in Irvine, CA, on June 6-8, 2022. This talk was based on the paper co-authored with Jens-Peter Kaps and Ahmad Salman. (06/09/2022)
Dr. Gaj participated in the NSF SaTC PI meeting
Dr. Gaj participated in the NSF 2022 Secure and Trustworthy CyberSpace (SaTC) Principal Investigators' (PI) meeting held on May 31-June 2, 2022, in Arlington, VA. In particular, he took an active part in the breakout session on Security in a Post-Quantum World. (06/03/2022)
Brian Jarvis spoke at CBCrypto 2022
Brian Jarvis gave a talk titled "Towards Accelerating Classic McEliece with PUF-Based Key Storage" at the International Workshop on Code-Based Cryptography, CBCrypto 2022, held in Trondheim, Norway, on May 29-30, 2022. (06/01/2022)
Viet Dang's full-time job at Qualcomm
On May 31, 2022, Viet Dang started a full-time job at Qualcomm in Phoenix, AZ. (06/01/2022)
Duc T. Nguyen's summer internship in SandboxAQ
On May 23, 2022, Duc T. Nguyen started an internship in SandboxAQ, scheduled to last until August 19, 2022. (05/24/2022)
Dr. Kaps gave a talk at the Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2022
Dr. Kaps gave a talk titled "General Framework for Evaluating LWC Finalists in Terms of Resistance to Side-Channel Attacks," at the Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2022, held on May 9-11, 2022. This talk was based on the paper co-authored by Jens-Peter Kaps, Kris Gaj, Abubakr Abdulgadir, and Kamyar Mohajerani. (05/12/2022)
Dr. Kaps gave an invited talk at the New England Hardware Security Day
Dr. Kaps gave an invited talk titled "Benchmarking FPGA Implementations of Candidates in the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process" at the New England Hardware Security (NEWHWS) Day 2022 workshop, held at the UMass Campus Center, Amherst, MA on April 1, 2022. (04/02/2022)
Dr. Gaj gave an invited talk as a part of the Intel Crypto Community of Practice
On March 1, 2022, Dr. Gaj gave an invited talk as a part of the Intel Crypto Community of Practice. The title of the talk was "Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Embedded Systems: Toward Choosing the Most Efficient and Flexible New Public Key Cryptography Standards." Participants were the scientists, engineers, and managers from Intel, including Daniel Dinu, Santosh Ghosh, Manoj Sastry, Avinash Varna, and Kirk Yap.
CERG Calls for Protected Implementations of LWC Finalists and Side-Channel Security Evaluation Labs
As a part of the process for evaluating ten finalists in the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process, on January 18, 2022, CERG released the final versions of calls for 1) Protected Hardware Implementations, targeting low-cost modern FPGAs, 2) Protected Software Implementations, targeting low-cost modern embedded processors, and 3) Side-Channel Security Evaluation Labs. The general idea was that no single group was likely to have resources and expertise to develop and evaluate SCA-protected implementations of all finalists. Additionally, self-evaluation by developers could be insufficient and/or error-prone. Therefore, it has been the collective responsibility of the cryptographic engineering community to contribute to this process and make it as transparent and fair as possible. The responses to these calls have been posted on the CERG ATHENa page titled Lightweight Cryptography in Hardware and Embedded Systems. (01/19/2022)