IEEE Access (Jan 2024)
Multi-LFSR Architectures for BRLWE-Based Post Quantum Cryptography
Abstract
The advancement in quantum computing has led to a significant progress in the development of public-key cryptosystems, referred as Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) which has robust security to withstand both classical and quantum attacks. Lattice-based cryptography, one of the most promising PQC candidate offers low complexity and has strong security proof relying on the hardness of Learning-with-errors (LWE) problem. A variant of LWE, Ring-learning-with-error (RLWE) performs arithmetic operations over a polynomial ring and has more efficient implementations compared to LWE. Recent works propose Binary-ring-learning-with-error (BRLWE), a new variant of RLWE which has less key size and more efficient implementations compared to both LWE and RLWE-based schemes. In this paper, an algorithm is developed for BRLWE-based scheme based on decomposing the arithmetic operation $H.L\; mod (x^{n}+1) + M$ into desired number of segments. The arithmetic operation includes polynomial multiplication and addition over the ring $x^{n}+1$ where H and M are two integer polynomials and L is a binary polynomial. We illustrate two efficient hardware architectures Dual-LFSR (DL) and Quad-LFSR (QL) to enable parallel execution of individual segments employing LFSR structures to have a significant reduction in latency compared to the existing works. Despite of having larger area, the reduction in latency leads to an improvement in other performance metrics such as delay, Area-Delay Product (ADP), Power-Delay Product (PDP), throughput and efficiency making the proposed structures well suitable for PQC schemes. Experimental results show that the proposed architectures when compared with the recently reported work has 23% and 25% ADP improvement with DL and QL structures respectively when n = 256.
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