This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant (CFDA 47.070) awarded to North Carolina State University (NC State) provides $241,165 to develop a unified custom hardware design that can efficiently execute post-quantum cryptography algorithms. The project aims to design new hardware components, including arithmetic units, cryptographic primitives, and algorithm-specific steps like sampling, encoding, and compressing, to support multiple encryption algorithms. Additionally, the research team will explore potential side-channel vulnerabilities and develop countermeasures using randomization techniques. The project also includes efforts to attract underrepresented demographics to hardware security research and integrate the findings into graduate and undergraduate curricula. The award period is from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2027.
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