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Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE)

The Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) was established in early 2015 to coordinate university-wide activities in the Sensing and Smart Systems pillar of FAU's Strategic Plan for the Race to Excellence.

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Undergraduate Research Opportunity (REU)

The REU program is led by Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D., and features a project on Efficient and Secure Hashing with SHA3: Memory, Throughput, and Security, Software Optimizations on ARM M4 Cortex.

Project Description

The advent of quantum computing poses a significant threat to modern cryptographic systems such as RSA and ECC, necessitating the development and deployment of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to safeguard data integrity and security. Cryptographic hashes are a key primitive in PQC algorithms and play a pivotal role in ensuring data integrity and authentication. SHA-3, the latest member of the Secure Hash Algorithm, accounts for over 70 percent of the clock cycles of PQC algorithms such as Kyber, XMSS, and Sphincs+, making efficient implementation of SHA-3 crucial to the performance and security of PQC.

Research Focus

Due to the limited resources of IoT devices, the computational cost of SHA-3 is exacerbated, necessitating optimization to make PQC feasible on embedded devices. The project explores efficient implementations of SHA-3 in both C and Assembly, in addition to software optimizations of SHA-3 for ARM Cortex M-4 devices.

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