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Isogeny-based cryptography has emerged as a promising postquantum alternative, with CSIDH and its constant-time variants CTIDH and dCTIDH offering efficient group-action protocols. However, CTIDH and dCTIDH rely on dummy operations in…
The commutative supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman (CSIDH) algorithm is a promising post-quantum key exchange protocol, notable for its exceptionally small key sizes, but hindered by computationally intensive key generation. Furthermore,…
SIDH is a post-quantum key exchange algorithm based on the presumed difficulty of finding isogenies between supersingular elliptic curves. However, SIDH and related cryptosystems also reveal additional information: the restriction of a…
Timing and cache side channels provide powerful attacks against many sensitive operations including cryptographic implementations. Existing defenses cannot protect against all classes of such attacks without incurring prohibitive…
In 2022, a prominent supersingular isogeny-based cryptographic scheme, namely SIDH, was compromised by a key recovery attack. However, this attack does not undermine the isogeny path problem, which remains central to the security of…
This paper presents efficient algorithms, designed to leverage SIMD for performing Montgomery reductions and additions on integers larger than 512 bits. The existing algorithms encounter inefficiencies when parallelized using SIMD due to…
Timing side-channel attacks pose a major threat to embedded systems due to their ease of accessibility. We propose CIDPro, a framework that relies on dynamic program diversification to mitigate timing side-channel leakage. The proposed…
Security of embedded computing systems is becoming of paramount concern as these devices become more ubiquitous, contain personal information and are increasingly used for financial transactions. Security attacks targeting embedded systems…
Side-channel attacks pose significant challenges to the security of embedded systems, often allowing attackers to circumvent encryption algorithms in minutes compared to the trillions of years required for brute-force attacks. To mitigate…
The implementations of most hardened cryptographic libraries use defensive programming techniques for side-channel resistance. These techniques are usually specified as guidelines to developers on specific code patterns to use or avoid.…
We propose an algorithm for computing an isogeny between two elliptic curves $E_1,E_2$ defined over a finite field such that there is an imaginary quadratic order $\mathcal{O}$ satisfying $\mathcal{O}\simeq \operatorname{End}(E_i)$ for $i =…
To be secure, cryptographic algorithms crucially rely on the underlying hardware to avoid inadvertent leakage of secrets through timing side channels. Unfortunately, such timing channels are ubiquitous in modern hardware, due to its…
We present a new implementation of the Floyd-Warshall All-Pairs Shortest Paths algorithm on CUDA. Our algorithm runs approximately 5 times faster than the previously best reported algorithm. In order to achieve this speedup, we applied a…
The security of code based constructions is usually assessed by Information Set Decoding (ISD) algorithms. In the quantum setting, amplitude amplification yields an asymptotic square root gain over the classical analogue. However, it is…
This paper presents a novel defense strategy against static power side-channel attacks (PSCAs), a critical threat to cryptographic security. Our method is based on (1) carefully tuning high-Vth versus low-Vth cell selection during…
The stabiliser formalism plays a central role in quantum computing, error correction, and fault tolerance. Conversions between and verifications of different specifications of stabiliser states and Clifford gates are important components of…
In the realm of daily services, the deployment of deep neural networks underscores the paramount importance of their reliability. However, the vulnerability of these networks to adversarial attacks, primarily evasion-based, poses a…
This paper presents applicability of Strong Stationary Times (SST) techniques in the area of cryptography. The applicability is in three areas: *) Propositions of a new class of cryptographic algorithms (pseudo-random permutation…
Software Defined Networks (SDN) face many security challenges today. A great deal of research has been done within the field of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in these networks. Yet, numerous approaches still rely on deep learning…
Constant-time programming is a widely deployed approach to harden cryptographic programs against side channel attacks. However, modern processors often violate the underlying assumptions of standard constant-time policies by transiently…