A High-Performance Hardware Implementation of the LESS Digital Signature Scheme

Beckwith, Luke; Wallace, Robert G.; Mohajerani, Kamyar; Gaj, Kris

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“…These large keys consume more storage space and processing power, increasing the time and costs. Not counting its operational cost or its energy efficiency, a recent high-performance implementation of CRYSTALS-Dilithium achieved the best-known latency as low as 16.8 microseconds on an Artix-7 at 142 MHz chip [11]. This is manifold higher than the 1-microsecond target set for 6G.…”

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“…Not taking into account the Q-Day threat when designing 6G networks will be disastrous. With the existing PQC performance standards on latency [11] and cost [55] [56], meeting the 6G goals for one-microsecond latency [7] and 1000 times cost reduction [8] seems impossibly difficult. These circumstances may create a dire necessity to justify mothering as radical an invention as the AZT framework of this research.…”

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From Standard Policy-Based Zero Trust to Absolute Zero Trust (AZT): A Quantum Leap to Q-Day Security

Raheman

2024

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Cybercrime is projected to cost a whopping $23.8 Trillion by 2027. This is essentially because there's no computer network that's not vulnerable. Fool-proof cybersecurity of personal data in a connected computer is considered practically impossible. The advent of quantum computers (QC) will worsen cybersecurity. QC will be a boon for data-intensive industries by drastically reducing the computing time from years to minutes. But QC will render our current cryptography vulnerable to quantum attacks, breaking nearly all modern cryptographic systems. Before QCs with sufficient qubits arrive, we must be ready with quantum-safe strategies to protect our ICT infrastructures. Postquantum cryptography (PQC) is being aggressively pursued worldwide as a defence from the potential Q-day threat. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), in a rigorous process, tested 82 PQC schemes, 80 of which failed after the final round in 2022. Recently the remaining two PQCs were also cracked by a Swedish and a French team of cryptographers, placing NIST's PQC standardization process in serious jeopardy. With all the NISTevaluated PQCs failing, there's an urgent need to explore alternate strategies. Although cybersecurity heavily relies on cryptography, recent evidence indicates that it can indeed transcend beyond encryption using Zero Vulnerability Computing (ZVC) technology. ZVC is an encryption-agnostic absolute zero trust (AZT) approach that can potentially render computers quantum resistant by banning all third-party permissions, a root cause of most vulnerabilities. Unachievable in legacy systems, AZT is pursued by an experienced consortium of European partners to build compact, solid-state devices that are robust, resilient, energy-efficient, and with zero attack surface, rendering them resistant to malware and future Q-Day threats.How to cite this paper: Raheman, F.

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