Paper 2020/1037
A High-performance Hardware Implementation of Saber Based on Karatsuba Algorithm
Yihong Zhu, Min Zhu, Bohan Yang, Wenping Zhu, Chenchen Deng, Chen Chen, Shaojun Wei, and Leibo Liu
Abstract
Although large numbers of hardware and software implementations have been proposed to accelerate lattice-based cryptography, Saber, a module-LWR-based algorithm, which has advanced to second round of the NIST standardization process, has not been adequately supported by the current solutions. Based on these motivations, a high-performance crypto-processor is proposed based on an algorithm-hardware co-design in this paper. First, a hierarchical Karatsuba calculating framework, a hardware-efficient Karatsuba scheduling strategy and an optimized circuit structure are utilized to enable high-throughput polynomial multiplication. Furthermore, a task-level pipeline and truncated multipliers are proposed to enable algorithm-specific fine-grained processing. Enabled by all of the above optimizations, Avalon takes 943, 1156, and 408 clock cycles for key generation, encryption, and decryption, respectively. Enabled by these optimizations, our processor takes 943, 1156 and 408 clock cycles for key generation, encryption, and decryption of Saber768, achieving 5.4x, 5.2x and 4.2x reductions compared with the state-of-the-art FPGA solutions, respectively. The post-layout simulation of our design is implemented with TSMC 40nm CMOS process within 0.35 mm2. The throughput for Saber768 is up to 346k encryption operations per second and the energy efficiency is 0.12uJ/encryption while operating at 400MHz, achieving nearly 52x improvement and 30x improvement, respectively compared with current PQC hardware solutions.
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- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Major revision. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9321216
- Keywords
- LatticeModule-LWRSaberhigh-performanceKaratsubahierachichal Karatsuba framework
- Contact author(s)
- zhuyihon18 @ mails tsinghua edu cn
- History
- 2021-04-23: revised
- 2020-08-28: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2020/1037
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1037,
author = {Yihong Zhu and Min Zhu and Bohan Yang and Wenping Zhu and Chenchen Deng and Chen Chen and Shaojun Wei and Leibo Liu},
title = {A High-performance Hardware Implementation of Saber Based on Karatsuba Algorithm},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1037},
year = {2020},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1037}
}