### Efficient ASIC Architectures for Low Latency Niederreiter Decryption

Daniel Fallnich, Shutao Zhang, and Tobias Gemmeke

##### Abstract

Post-quantum cryptography addresses the increasing threat that quantum computing poses to modern communication systems. Among the available "quantum-resistant" systems, the Niederreiter cryptosystem is positioned as a conservative choice with strong security guarantees. As a code-based cryptosystem, the Niederreiter system enables high performance operations and is thus ideally suited for applications such as the acceleration of server workloads. However, until now, no ASIC architecture is available for low latency computation of Niederreiter operations. Therefore, the present work targets the design, implementation and optimization of tailored archi- tectures for low latency Niederreiter decryption. Two architectures utilizing different decoding algorithms are proposed and implemented using a 22nm FDSOI CMOS technology node. One of these optimized architectures improves the decryption latency by 27% compared to a state-of-the-art reference and requires at the same time only 25% of the area.

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Publication info
Preprint. Minor revision.
Keywords
Application-Specific ArchitecturePost-Quantum CryptographyNiederreiter CryptosystemHardware Implementation
Contact author(s)
fallnich @ ibm com
zhang @ ids rwth-aachen de
gemmeke @ ids rwth-aachen de
History
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/469

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/469,
author = {Daniel Fallnich and Shutao Zhang and Tobias Gemmeke},
title = {Efficient ASIC Architectures for Low Latency Niederreiter Decryption},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/469},
year = {2022},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/469}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/469}
}

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