This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant will support research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop foundational theories for quantum-secure cryptography and train students in a quantum perspective on the field. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the three-year award period runs from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Key research areas include security of symmetric-key primitives against quantum attackers,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Office of Research Administration. The grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, will fund a research project to investigate post-quantum multivariate cryptography and develop novel quantum algorithms and public-key cryptosystems resistant to quantum computing capabilities. Key objectives...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $245,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SECURE AND EFFICIENT POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: FROM CODING THEORY TO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE." The three-year grant running from May 2021 through April 2024 will fund research exploring post-quantum cryptography approaches from coding theory to hardware...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $245,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SECURE AND EFFICIENT POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: FROM CODING THEORY TO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE." The three-year grant, awarded May 15, 2021 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), will fund the development of post-quantum cryptography techniques with a focus on secure and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois. This 2-year grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, plans to enable a network instrument to measure the adoption rate of quantum-resistant encryption methods, also known as post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The developed network instrument aims to track the adoption of new encryption, measure any...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program project grant, awarded to Marymount University, aims to perform a rigorous evaluation of post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms and design countermeasures against side-channel attacks and environmentally induced faults. The $174,987 award, effective April 15, 2024 through March 31, 2026, will support software simulations to verify mathematical derivations and integrate the developed...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, will provide $263,170 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to advance quantum security and computational capabilities. The project aims to construct new forms of quantum pseudorandomness that can hide certain quantum mechanical properties, such as entanglement. This research may enable new types of post-quantum cryptography and testing methods...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $999,018 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of South Florida (USF). This grant, titled "RTG: Applied Algebra at the University of South Florida," will establish diverse, vertically-integrated research teams at USF focused on cryptography, coding theory, and quantum computing - fields grounded in applied algebra. The project aims to recruit and retain a diverse pool of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $241,165 to North Carolina State University to develop custom hardware for supporting multiple post-quantum cryptography algorithms. The research team will design novel hardware components, including arithmetic units, cryptographic primitives, and algorithm-specific modules, to efficiently execute these encryption algorithms....
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Colorado Boulder. This 3-year grant, effective June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2027, supports fundamental research in the arithmetic of group orbits and the underlying mathematics of post-quantum cryptography methods. Key activities include studying families of integers arising from thin group orbits, investigating the difficulty of...