Comparison of RISC-V and transport triggered architectures for a postquantumcryptography application

Authors

LATİF AKÇAY
SIDDIKA BERNA ÖRS YALÇIN

DOI

10.3906/elk-2003-27

Abstract

Cryptography is one of the basic phenomena of security systems. However, some of the widely used publickey cryptography algorithms can be broken by using quantum computers. Therefore, many postquantum cryptography algorithms are proposed in recent years to handle this issue. NTRU (Nth degree truncated polynomial ring units) is one of the most important of these quantum-safe algorithms. Besides the importance of cryptography algorithms, the architecture where they are implemented is also essential. In this study, we developed an NTRU public key cryptosystem application and designed several processors to compare them in many aspects. We address two different architectures in this work. The RISC-V (reduced instruction set computer-V) is chosen as it is the most lately version of classical RISC architecture. As competitor to this, we preferred transport triggered architecture (TTA) which offers high level customization and scalability. Details of all different implementations and the test results obtained with them are shared and discussed.

Keywords

Lattice-based cryptography, secure communication, application specific processor design, open source

First Page

321

Last Page

333

Recommended Citation

AKÇAY, LATİF and YALÇIN, SIDDIKA BERNA ÖRS (2021) "Comparison of RISC-V and transport triggered architectures for a postquantumcryptography application," Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 29: No. 1, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-2003-27
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/vol29/iss1/21