QSI-IS Special Seminar: Jiafeng Xie (Villanova)

TITLE:  

Hardware Acceleration for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Algorithmic Derivation, and Architectural Innovation

ABSTRACT: 

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has drawn significant attention from various communities recently as the existing public-key cryptosystems such as Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) are proven to be vulnerable to the large-scale quantum computers executing Shor’s algorithm. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has already started the PQC standardization process, and hardware acceleration for PQC algorithms is one of the most recent focused topics. In this talk, I will follow this trend to introduce several interesting methods to accelerate the PQC algorithms on the hardware platform. Specifically, this talk will present the hardware implementation methods from the aspects of both algorithmic derivation and architectural innovation. Implementation techniques for specific NIST-selected PQC schemes are also covered in this talk. I hope that this talk will facilitate more research to help the PQC standardization and further development

Speaker: Dr. Xie is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University. His research interests include post-quantum security and computing, cryptographic engineering, hardware security, and digital design for large-scale computing systems. Dr. Xie has served as technical committee member for many reputed conferences such as HOST, ICCAD, and DAC. He is also currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE T-SP, ACM TRETS, and IEEE ESL. He is also serving as the Senior Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs. He received the IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor for the year of 2019. He also received the 2022 IEEE Philadelphia Section Merrill Buckley Jr. Student Project Award, the Best Paper Award from IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust 2019 (HOST'19), and the IEEE Philadelphia Section Engineer of the Year Award 2024. He is currently the Secretary for IEEE Philadelphia Section.

Time/Location: 11:30am / ITE-459