Project Grant 2530361
- This federal Project Grant award of $263,170 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a performance period from January 15, 2025 to December 31, 2029, aims to advance quantum security and cryptography. The project's key objectives are to construct new forms of quantum pseudorandomness, which can hide the quantum mechanical properties of physical systems, such as their entanglement. This research is expected to...
- 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 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is focused on using recent advances in mathematics to improve lattice-based cryptography, which is essential for secure digital communication. The central goals are to improve constructions of lattices with both addition and multiplication operations, develop faster algorithms to operate on these lattices, and build more efficient cryptographic applications using them....
- This Project Grant award of $339,842 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at North Carolina State University to develop an automated framework for mitigating single-trace side-channel vulnerabilities in post-quantum cryptography implementations. The primary objective is to expose and address risks of software running post-quantum cryptography algorithms being vulnerable to reverse-engineering attacks that...
- This $248,756 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to design secure quantum computing systems. The project focuses on studying security vulnerabilities and developing remediation techniques for both hardware-specific and agnostic side-channel attacks on existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers and upcoming fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The...
- This $219,148 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports Clemson University's research on lattice reduction in cryptography and number theory. The key objectives are to: Develop a new algorithm for finding short vectors in ideal lattices, which are critical to the security of many post-quantum cryptographic systems. This algorithm will generalize a recently introduced complex continued fraction method to work over arbitrary...
This Project Grant award of $328,588 from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to advance the understanding of the security of existing quantum-safe cryptosystems and guide the design of future systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: This award reflects the NSF's mission to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in critical areas like post-quantum cryptography, which is essential for preparing for the potential disruption of traditional cryptosystems by future quantum computers.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $328.6k | 8/25/25 |