Project Grant 2611676
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $442,887 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct collaborative research on the theoretical foundations of lattice-based cryptography. This four-year award, effective October 1, 2023, supports three primary research goals: 1) Analyzing the fine-grained complexity of lattice problems to better understand the practical security of lattice-based cryptosystems; 2) Studying connections between lattices and...
- 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 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 (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,...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary This collaborative research project grant of $600,000, awarded July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, is funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The project, conducted at UC San Diego, focuses on advancing lattice-based cryptography by developing efficient constructions of number fields with small root discriminants and creating faster...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $389,661 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through investigator-initiated research and development of cyberinfrastructure. Specifically, the University of...
- This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $250,000 to Cornell University from October 2021 through September 2024. The funding supports research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CISE-ANR: CNS CORE: SMALL: CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDNESS OF MODULE LATTICES" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant will advance the development of cryptographic techniques through investigator-initiated research exploring the...
- 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...
SATC: CORE: SMALL: LATTICES, NUMBER THEORY, AND DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY -MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY FACES THE SERIOUS CONCERN THAT QUANTUM COMPUTERS WILL ONE DAY BREAK MOST OF OUR PRESENTLY-USED CRYPTOSYSTEMS. THIS WOULD HAVE CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES TO INTERNET SECURITY AND PRIVACY. AS A RESULT, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO DEVELOP AND UNDERSTAND NEWER TYPES OF POTENTIALLY QUANTUM-RESISTANT CRYPTOSYSTEMS. CRYPTOSYSTEMS BASED ON THE MATHEMATICAL NOTION OF EUCLIDEAN LATTICES ARE PRESENTLY THE LEADING CANDIDATES FOR POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY. THE PROPOSAL STUDIES THE MATHEMATICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF THESE SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS POSSIBLE ATTACKS ON THEM. SPECIFICALLY, THE PI AND COLLABORATORS WILL STUDY DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONS (SUCH AS BIASED OUTPUTS) RELATED TO THE BEHAVIOR OF THE LLL LATTICE BASIS REDUCTION ALGORITHM, ONE OF THE BASIC TOOLS FOR ATTACKING LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOSYSTEMS. ESTIMATING THE SECURITY OF LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOSYSTEMS REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING THE ACTUAL, AVERAGE-CASE PERFORMANCE OF THE LLL ALGORITHM AND ITS VARIANTS, HENCE THE INTEREST IN SUCH AN ANALYSIS. THE PI AND COLLABORATORS ALSO PLAN TO DEVELOP MACHINERY FROM ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY AND AUTOMORPHIC FORMS TO STUDY THE SIZE OF THE SMALLEST BASIS OF A RANDOM LATTICE, WHICH IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING AVERAGE-CASE KEY SIZES. FINALLY, THE PI AND COLLABORATORS WILL SYSTEMATICALLY STUDY VARIOUS PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATIONS OF ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOSYSTEMS, SUCH AS UNUSUAL BIASES IN TIMINGS OR OTHER SIDE-CHANNEL INFORMATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $5.4k | 1/15/26 |