Paper 2022/1726
Optimization for SPHINCS+ using Intel Secure Hash Algorithm Extensions
Abstract
SPHINCS+ was selected as a candidate digital signature scheme for standardization by the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process. It offers security capabilities relying only on the security of cryptographic hash functions. However, it is less efficient than the lattice-based schemes. In this paper, we present an optimized software library for the SPHINCS+ signature scheme, which combines the Intel® Secure Hash Algorithm Extensions (SHA-NI) and AVX2 vector instructions. We obtain significant speed-up of SPHINCS+-128f-simple on both non-optimized (70%) and AVX2 reference implementations (8% -23%) offering 128-bit security.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. NIST 4th PQC workshop
- Keywords
- post-quantum cryptography digital signatures SPHINCS+ SHA-NI AVX2
- Contact author(s)
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thanson @ umd edu
qian4 wang @ intel com
santosh ghosh @ intel com
fernando virdia @ intel com
anne reinders @ intel com
manoj r sastry @ intel com - History
- 2022-12-15: approved
- 2022-12-14: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/1726
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1726,
author = {Thomas Hanson and Qian Wang and Santosh Ghosh and Fernando Virdia and Anne Reinders and Manoj R. Sastry},
title = {Optimization for {SPHINCS}+ using Intel Secure Hash Algorithm Extensions},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/1726},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1726}
}
