Accepted Papers
TCHES 2026, Issue 1
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PipFHE: Resource-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Deep CNN Inference via Padded Batch Packing and Channel Merging over FHE
Tianyu Wang, Zewen Ye, Tianshun Huang, Chengxuan Wang, Kuangye Ying, Kejie Huang
Zhejiang University
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A Mirrored-Circuits Approach for Low-Latency and Low-Randomness Composable PINI Gadgets
Lixuan Wu, Yanhong Fan, Jiahui He, Guowei Liu, Chaoran Wang, Meiqin Wang
Shandong University
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Scalable Information Theoretic Evaluation of the Rank Statistics in Side-Channel Attacks
Julien Béguinot, François-Xavier Standaert, Olivier Rioul, Loïc Masure, Sylvain Guilley, Wei Cheng
Institut Polytechnique de Paris; UCLouvain; CNRS; University of Montpellier; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Secure-IC S.A.S
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Don’t be mean: Reducing Approximation Noise in TFHE through Mean Compensation
Thomas de Ruijter, Jan-Pieter D'Anvers, Ingrid Verbauwhede
KU Leuven
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Homomorphic Field Trace Revisited : Breaking the Cubic Noise Barrier
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It’s TEEtime: Secure Interrupt Isolation for Normal-world Enclaves on Arm
Friederike Groschupp, Mark Kuhne, Moritz Schneider, Ivan Puddu, Shweta Shinde, Srdjan Čapkun
ETH Zurich
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SPHGen: A Program Generator for Fast Polynomial Hash Functions
Tommaso Pegolotti, Jan Gilcher, Kenneth Paterson, Markus Püschel
ETH Zurich
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WW-FL: Secure and Private Large-Scale Federated Learning
Felix Marx, Thomas Schneider, Ajith Suresh, Tobias Wehrle, Christian Weinert, Hossein Yalame
TU Darmstadt; Technology Innovation Institute; Royal Holloway, University of London
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Fault Attacks on VOLEitH Signature Schemes
Sönke Jendral, Elena Dubrova
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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NeonCROSS: Vectorized Implementation of Post-Quantum Signature CROSS on Cortex-A72 and Apple M3
Hanyu Wei, Wenqian Li, Yunlei Zhao
Fudan University
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Coil-Based Detection and Concurrent Error Correction Against EMFI
Felix Uhle, Nicolai Müller, Thorben Moos, Philipp Günther, Amir Moradi
Ruhr University Bochum; UCLouvain; Langer EMV-Technik GmbH; TU Darmstadt
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Vectorized Falcon-Sign Implementations using SSE2, AVX2, AVX-512F, NEON, and RVV
Jipeng Zhang, Jiaheng Zhang
National University of Singapore
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YATA: Yet Another TFHE Accelerator with Key Compression and Radix-8 NTT
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Sota Voce: Low-Noise Sampling of Sparse Fixed-Weight Vectors
Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho, Gora Adj, Slim Bettaieb, Alessandro Budroni, Jorge Chavez-Saab, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
Universidade Estadual de Campinas; State University of Londrina; Technology Innovation Institute
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Active Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis: Crossing Physical Security Boundaries through Impedance Variations
Taiki Kitazawa, Lennert Wouters, Benedikt Gierlichs, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Daisuke Fujimoto, Yuichi Hayashi
Nara Institute of Science and Technology; KU Leuven
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Improving the Selection Rule of Correlation Attacks for Remote Power Analysis
Oriol Farràs, Vincent Grosso, Miquel Guiot, Carlos Andres Lara-Nino
Universitat Rovira i Virgili; CNRS
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Finding Bugs and Features Using Cryptographically-Informed Functional Testing
Giacomo Fenzi, Jan Gilcher, Fernando Virdia
EPFL; ETH Zurich; University of Surrey
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PWNN: Power-Wasting Neural Network As Remote Fault Injector
Huashuangyang Xu, Sergej Meschkov, Vincent Meyers, Mehdi Tahoori
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Keep it Simple: Refreshing the NTT of Kyber’s Decapsulation to Prevent Plaintext-Checking Side-Channel Attacks
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FAST: Fast and Accurate Security Testing of HRP UWB Chips
Graciana Aad, Giovanni Camurati, Matteo Dell'Amico, Srdjan Čapkun
ETH Zurich; University of Genoa
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High Fidelity Security Mesh Monitoring using Low-Cost, Embedded Time Domain Reflectometry
Jan Sebastian Götte, Björn Scheuermann
TU Darmstadt
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Evaluating Larger Lookup Tables using CKKS
Jules Dumezy, Andreea Alexandru, Yuriy Polyakov, Pierre-Emmanuel Clet, Olive Chakraborty, Aymen Boudguiga
Université Paris-Saclay; Duality Technologies
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M3-Mix: A Multi-Coin, Memory-Light, Mixer Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Embedded Devices
Zonglun Li, Shuhao Zheng, Junliang Luo, Ziyue Xin, Xue Liu
McGill University
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ML-DSA masking sweetened with SUCRE: Shuffle-and-Unmask Countermeasure for REjection sampling
Sonia Belaïd, Ryad Benadjila, Julien Devevey, Morgane Guerreau, Thomas Legavre, Ange Martinelli, Thomas Ricosset, Matthieu Rivain, Mélissa Rossi
CryptoExperts; ANSSI; PQShield; Sorbonne Université; Thales
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Combined Stability: Protecting against Combined Attacks
Dilara Toprakhisar, Svetla Nikova, Ventzislav Nikov
KU Leuven; NXP Semiconductors
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UP TO 50% OFF: Efficient Implementation of Polynomial Masking
Jorge Andresen, Paula Arnold, Sebastian Berndt, Thomas Eisenbarth, Sebastian Faust, Marc Gourjon, Eric Landthaler, Elena Micheli, Maximilian Orlt, Pajam Pauls, Kathrin Wirschem, Liang Zhao
University of Lübeck; Technische Hochschule Lübeck; TU Darmstadt; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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Testing Security Equivalence in the Random Probing Model
Anna Guinet, Carina Graw, Lukas Koletzko, Jan Richter-Brockmann, Holger Dette, Tim Güneysu
Ruhr University Bochum
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TCHES 2026, Issue 2
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t-Probing (In-)Security - Pitfalls on Noise Assumptions
Dina Hesse, Georg Land, Jakob Feldtkeller, Markus Krausz, Julius Hermelink, Jan Richter-Brockmann, Tim Güneysu
Ruhr University Bochum; Intel; PQShield; TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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Racing against the clock: side-channel leakage from crossing asynchronous clock domains
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Masked Solving of Linear Equations System and Application to UOV Signatures
Jean-Sébastien Coron, François Gérard, Bowen Zhang
University of Luxembourg; UCLouvain
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Loricae: Upgrading and Optimizing Multi-Party Computation Protocols with Filmy Hardware Enclaves
Xiang Li, Baiting Jiang, Xiaoyu Fan, Weijie Liu, Yifan Song, Mingyu Gao
Tsinghua University; Nankai University; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
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ARMOR: First Order Masking of Activation and ArgMax Gadgets for Side Channel Resistant Neural Networks
Won Geun Shin, HeeSeok Kim, JeongHwan Lee, Sangyun Jung
Korea University
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aLEAKator: HDL Mixed-Domain Simulation for Masked Hardware & Software Formal Verification
Noé Amiot, Quentin Meunier, Karine Heydemann, Emmanuelle Encrenaz
Sorbonne Université; Thales
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High-Performance SIMD Software for Spielman Codes in Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Florian Krieger, Christian Dobrouschek, Florian Hirner, Sujoy Sinha Roy
Graz University of Technology
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Correction Fault Attack on CROSS under Unknown Bit Flips
Sönke Jendral, Elena Dubrova, Qian Guo, Thomas Johansson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lund University
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Memory Optimizations of Wagner's Algorithm with Applications to Equihash
Lili Tang, Rui Ding, Yao Sun, Xiaorui Gong
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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TSM+ and OTSM - Correct Application of Time Sharing Masking in Round-Based Designs
Hemin Rahimi, Amir Moradi
Independent Researcher; TU Darmstadt
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A Framework for Designing High-Order Side-Channel Protected Hardware Implementations of ML-KEM
Eros Camacho-Ruiz, Pablo Navarro-Torrero, Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya
Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla; Tampere University
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Multivariate Leakage Detection
Aakash Chowdhury, Elisabeth Oswald
University of Klagenfurt; University of Birmingham
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AVX2 Implementation of QR-UOV for Modern x86 Processors
Hiroshi Amagasa, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma
Tohoku University; Kyoto University
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TWFalcon: Triple-Word Arithmetic for Falcon - Giving Falcon the Precision to Fly Securely
Stef Halmans, Christine van Vredendaal, Tobias Schneider, Frank Custers, Tim Güneysu
Ruhr University Bochum; NXP Semiconductors
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Lightweight PQ KEM and Hybrid MQTT Protocol for 8-bit AVR Sensor Nodes
Yifan Dong, YoungBeom Kim, Jieyu Zheng, Zhichuang Liang, Boyue Fang, Seog Chung Seo, Máire O'Neill, Yunlei Zhao
Fudan University; Kookmin University; Queens University Belfast
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Optimized Implementations of Keccak, Kyber, and Dilithium on the MSP430 Microcontroller
DongHyun Shin, YoungBeom Kim, Ayesha Khalid, Máire O'Neill, Seog Chung Seo
Kookmin University; Queens University Belfast
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AIPS: AI-Based Power Simulation for Pre-Silicon Side-Channel Security Evaluation
Ya Gao, Haocheng Ma, Tanchen Zhang, Jiaji He, Yiqiang Zhao, Mirjana Stojilovic, Yier Jin
Tianjin University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; EPFL; University of Science and Technology of China
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Non-supervised SASCA on the VOLEitH Framework
Julie Godard, Nicolas Aragon, Philippe Gaborit, Antoine Loiseau, Julien Maillard
Université Grenoble Alpes; University of Limoges
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Improving ML-KEM and ML-DSA on OpenTitan - Efficient Multiplication Vector Instructions for OTBN
Ruben Niederhagen, Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham
Academia Sinica; University of Southern Denmark; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Université Grenoble Alpes
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Accelerating HQC with Additive FFT
Ming-Shing Chen, Chun-Ming Chiu, Chun-Tao Peng, Bo-Yin Yang
Academia Sinica
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Combined Indistinguishability Analysis - Verifying random probing leakage under random faults
Armand Schinkel, Pascal Sasdrich
Ruhr University Bochum
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BTCCA: Unsupervised Horizontal Attack against RSA Primitive with Barlow Twins Collision Correlation Analysis
Dorian Llavata, Eleonora Cagli, Rémi Eyraud, Vincent Grosso, Lilian Bossuet
Université Grenoble Alpes; Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne; CNRS; CEA-Leti
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A Tool for Lightweight (AND, XOR) Implementations of Large-Degree S-boxes
Sébastien Duval, Marie Bolzer, Marine Minier
Université de Lorraine; CNRS; Inria
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Lightening CROSS: Memory Optimized Implementations of CROSS
Harry Hart, Puja Mondal, Suparna Kundu, Supriya Adhikary, Angshuman Karmakar, Chaoyun Li
University of Surrey; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; KU Leuven
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DS-NSCA: Differentiable Search for Non-Profiling Side-channel Analysis
Di Li, Zheng Gong, Yufeng Tang, Chun Li
South China Normal University; Tsinghua University
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When Masking Multiplication Isn't Enough: Exploiting Floating-Point Leakage in Falcon's Pre-Image Computation
Keng-Yu Chen, Ming Qing Ching, Jiun-Peng Chen, Bo-Yin Yang
EPFL; National Taiwan University; Academia Sinica
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NTT-PEEL: Bit Shift Side-Channel in FALCON's Number Theoretic Transform
Jinyi Qiu, Aydin Aysu
North Carolina State University
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On the Security of Lightweight Homomorphic Obfuscation for Protecting Against Hardware Trojans
Tanvir Hossain, Matthew Showers, Mahmudul Hasan, Tamzidul Hoque
University of Kansas
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Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Network-enabled Side-channel Analysis and Links to Explainability
Seyedmohammad Nouraniboosjin, Fatemeh (Saba) Ganji
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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DRR-NTT: Efficient NTT Accelerator in Lattice-Based Cryptography By Dimensionality Reduction in RRAM
Yijun Cui, Yang Chen, Bei Wang, Ziying Ni, Lixia Han, Fei Lyu, Chenghua Wang, Weiqiang Liu
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Queens University Belfast
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Compact and Low Latency First-Order AES Implementations with Low Randomness
Feng Zhou, Hua Chen, Limin Fan, Junhuai Yang
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhongguancun Laboratory
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Efficient High-Order Masking of FrodoKEM's CDT-Based Gaussian Sampler
Elie Eid, Aurélien Greuet, Nathan Reboud, Rina Zeitoun
IDEMIA Secure Transactions
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Uniform Sharing in Multiple Stages: NullFresh for Arbitrary Functions
Artemii Ovchinnikov, Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Siemen Dhooghe
KU Leuven; PQShield
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DPA-Style Attacks on HQC
Zhuo Huang, Weijia Wang, Xiaogang Zhou, Yu Yu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shandong University; China Telecom Quantum Information Technology Group Co., Ltd; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
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Secret Key Recovery of FALCON using Simple Power Analysis in Conditional Calculator
GyuSang Kim, JeongHwan Lee, Myeonghoon Lee, Seokhie Hong, HeeSeok Kim
Korea University
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TCHES 2026, Issue 3
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Fault Attack Countermeasures for SPHINCS+: WOTS+ with Checksum Segmentation and Subtree Root Children Caching
Yan Li, Tianlong Yan, Yiming Xue, Gechen Liu, Shuang Yao, Ningning He, Hao Wen
China Agricultural University; CEC Huada Electronic Design Co., Ltd.
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Better Usability: Leakage-Resistant AEADs from Single-length key Blockciphers
Chun Guo, Mustafa Khairallah, Kazuhiko Minematsu
Shandong University; Nanyang Technological University; NEC
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Faultless Key Recovery: Iteration-Skip and Loop-Abort Fault Attacks on LESS
Xiao Huang, Zhuo Huang, Yituo He, Quan Yuan, Chao Sun, Mehdi Tibouchi, Yu Yu
Southeast University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shandong University; NTT Social Informatics Laboratories
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High-Performance FPGA Accelerator for the Post-quantum Signature Scheme CROSS
Patrick Karl, Francesco Antognazza, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi, Georg Sigl
Technical University of Munich; Politecnico di Milano; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security
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SAMSEM – A Generic and Scalable Approach for IC Metal Line Segmentation
Christian Gehrmann, Jonas Ricker, Simon Damm, Deruo Cheng, Julian Speith, Yiqiong Shi, Asja Fischer, Christof Paar
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Ruhr University Bochum; Nanyang Technological University
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A New Optimized Implementation Method for Boolean Functions Towards Low-Latency – Application to S-Boxes
Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Yanhong Fan, Puwen Wei, Meiqin Wang
Shandong University; Hangzhou Dianzi University
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A High-Performance and Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture for FrodoKEM
Fu Yao, Guang Zeng, Jiachen Wang, Jiahao Lu
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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BOLT-FHE: An Efficient Unified Framework for GPU-based TFHE Bootstrapping via On-Chip Local Tiling Strategies
Yanren Chen, Fangyu Zheng, Guang Fan, Jiankuo Dong, Wenxu Tang, Tian Zhou, Jingqiang Lin, Jiwu Jing
University of Science and Technology of China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Optimizing the Post Quantum Signature Scheme CROSS for Resource Constrained Devices
Jonas Schupp, Marco Gianvecchio, Alessandro Barenghi, Patrick Karl, Gerardo Pelosi, Georg Sigl
Technical University of Munich; Politecnico di Milano; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security
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Decomposition of Large Look-Up Tables for Fast Homomorphic Evaluation
Sonia Belaïd, Nicolas Bon, Matthieu Rivain
CryptoExperts
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Breaking the Myth of MPCitH Inefficiency: Optimizing MQOM for Embedded Platforms
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Verified non-recursive calculation of Beneš networks applied to Classic McEliece
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ABRA-CAPA-DABRA: Full break of CAPA
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SoK: Review of IC Logical Reverse Engineering Techniques
Kevin Xu, Lucas D. Franck, Samuel Pagliarini
Carnegie Mellon University
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Additive FFTs for HQC on ARM Cortex-M4, Revisited
Ming-Shing Chen, Tun-You Chien, Chun-Ming Chiu, Han-Hsuan Lin, Chun-Tao Peng, Bo-Yin Yang
Academia Sinica; National Tsing Hua University
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DSPFA: Generalized Persistent Fault Analysis based on Distributional Similarity
Zhang Jiayu, Shihui Zheng, Xinming Zhu, Yingyan Chen, Changhai Ou
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Wuhan University
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LFSRs and Boolean Masking: An In-depth Security Analysis
Anna Guinet, Jan Schoone, Niklas Höher, Dina Hesse, Tim Güneysu
Ruhr-University Bochum; Radboud University
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MIFA: An MILP-based Framework for Improving Differential Fault Attacks
Hanbeom Shin, Insung Kim, Sunyeop Kim, Byoungjin Seok, Deukjo Hong, Jaechul Sung, Seokhie Hong, Sangjin Lee, Dongjae Lee
Korea University; Nanyang Technological University; Hansung University; Jeonbuk National University; University of Seoul; Kangwon National University
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Optimizing and Implementing Threshold MAYO
Sofia Celi, Giacomo Borin, Guilhem Niot, Diego F. Aranha
Brave; University of Bristol; IBM Research; University of Zurich; PQShield; University of Rennes; CNRS; IRISA; Aarhus University
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Accelerating Baby-step Giant-step Algorithm for Solving ECDLP Using Elliptic Divisibility Sequences
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Efficient and Parallel Implementation of Isogeny-based Deterministic Group Actions
Weize Wang, Yi-Fu Lai, Kaizhan Lin, Yunlei Zhao
Fudan University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Efficient SIMD Implementation of the BLS Signature Scheme Using Intel AVX-512
Ganqin Liu, Hao Cheng, Georgios Fotiadis, Jipeng Zhang, Johann Großschädl
Shandong University; Ubitech Ltd.; National University of Singapore; University of Luxembourg
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Leakback CRC: Optical Plaintext Recovery of Encrypted Bitstreams on AMD 7-Series FPGAs
Antonio Saavedra, Lars Renkes, Felix Hahn, Maik Ender, Christof Paar, Jean-Pierre Seifert
Technische Universität Berlin; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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Hardware Private Cubic Circuits
Frederik Reiter, Amir Moradi
Technical University of Darmstadt
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A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Hard-Label Extraction of Deep Neural Networks via Side-Channel Attacks
Benoit Coqueret, Mathieu Carbone, Olivier Sentieys, Gabriel Zaid
CESTI Thales; INRIA; IRISA; Université de Rennes; CryptoExperts
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Compressed Key Exchange Protocol from Orientations of Large Discriminant Using AVX-512
Yuhao Zheng, Jianming Lin, Yutong Liang, Yanzhen Ren, Huixin Zhang, Chang-An Zhao
Sun Yat-Sen University
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HawkPU: An Efficient and Low-Latency Hardware Architecture for HAWK Signature Generation and Verification
Rui Wang, Yihong Zhu, Wenping Zhu, Yi Ouyang, Bohan Yang, Hanning Wang, Min Zhu, Chen Chen, Aoyang Zhang, Leibo Liu
Tsinghua University; Wuxi Micro Innovation Integrated Circuit Design Company Ltd.
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Tempo: An ML-KEM to PAKE Compiler Resilient to Timing Attacks
Afonso Arriaga, Manuel Barbosa, Stanislaw Jarecki
University of Luxembourg; Universidade do Porto; INESC TEC; University of California at Irvine
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MAGNET: MAsked Gaussian Now Efficient and Table-less
Mert Yassi, Soundes Marzougui, Raymond K. Zhao, Muhammed F. Esgin, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld
Monash University; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron; ExeQuantum
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Bad Benchmarks and a Fourier-Analytic Framework for Characterizing the (Un)Hideability of Combinational-Logic Circuits
Animesh Chhotaray, Kollin Labowski, Thomas Shrimpton
Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Florida; Galois, Inc.
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SPLASH: SPeculative Leakage-Adaptive Secure Hardware
Huimin Li, Mohamadreza Rostami, Pallavi Borkar, Lichao Wu, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology; Technical University of Darmstadt; Indian Institute of Technology Madras; University of Bristol
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SpectroLoc: Cryptographic Operation Localization via Spectrogram Projection and Time-Series Analysis
Yubo Zhao, Shipei Qu, Yuxuan Wang, Jintong Yu, Juncheng Ji, Zhiliang An, Chi Zhang, Zhedong Wang, Dawu Gu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Accelerating FrodoKEM in Hardware
Sanjay Deshpande, Patrick Longa, Jakub Szefer
Northwestern University; Microsoft Research
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Neur-SASCA: High-Noise-Tolerant and Automated Single-Trace Attack against NTT
Yuxuan Wang, Jintong Yu, Yihan Nie, Yubo Zhao, Xiaolin Zhang, Yipeng Shi, Chi Zhang, Zhedong Wang, Dawu Gu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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GPU-Accelerated DPF-Based Private Information Retrieval for Large-Scale Database
Qingquan Tan, Chenkai Zeng, Qi Feng, Cong Peng, Weijia Wang, Debiao He
Wuhan University; Shandong University
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Completing the Chain: Verified Implementations of Hash-Based Signatures and Their Security
Manuel Barbosa, François Dupressoir, Rui Fernandes, Andreas Hülsing, Matthias Meijers, Pierre-Yves Strub
Universidade do Porto; INESC TEC; University of Bristol; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Eindhoven University of Technology; SandboxAQ; PQShield
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MPSpeed: Implementing and Optimizing MPC-in-the-Head Digital Signatures in Hardware – Accelerating Mirath on FPGA
Stelios Manasidis, Quinten Norga, Suparna Kundu, Ingrid Verbauwhede
KU Leuven
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FrozenTRU: Cold Boot Attacks on NTRU-Based Hash-and-Sign Signatures
Hiroto Kaihara, Mehdi Tibouchi, Masayuki Abe
Kyoto University; NTT Social Informatics Laboratories
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Structured Module Lattice-based Cryptography: Fine-Grained Parameter Selection without Compromising Performance
Joppe W. Bos, Joost Renes, Frederik Vercauteren, Peng Wang
NXP Semiconductors; KU Leuven; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Hardness of Learning with Physical Rounding and Noise from Learning With Errors
Clément Hoffmann, Emeline Repel, Adeline Roux-Langlois, François-Xavier Standaert
NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Université Caen Normandie; ENSICAEN; CNRS; Normandie Univsity; UCLouvain
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Bridging Side-channel Evaluation Gap: From Interpretable Leakage Models to Concrete Evidence-based Attacks
Jiangshan Wang, Changhai Ou, Kun Yang, Kexin Qiao, Fan Zhang, Wei Cheng, Debiao He
Wuhan University; Shandong University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing Institute of Technology; Zhejiang University; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Wuhan University
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HyperSCA: A Comprehensive Hyperparameter Optimization Framework for Deep Learning-based Side Channel Attacks
Yuan Li, Danqing Li, Xiaomei Tang, Bin Zhang, Changhai Ou, Pengcheng Ma, Guangfu Sun
National University of Defense Technology, China; Wuhan University
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Faster Homomorphic Integer Computer
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Bitsliced Segment-Based Search Technique for Low-Depth and Hardware-Efficient S-Box Circuits
Giyoon Kim, Seungjun Baek, Yongjin Jeon, Vedad Hadzic, Jongsung Kim
Pukyong National University; Kookmin University; KU Leuven; Intel Corporation
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CoMEMS: Coping with Micro-Architectural Effects on Masked Software
Jannik Zeitschner, Amir Moradi
Ruhr-University Bochum; Technical University of Darmstadt
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Soft Analytical Side-Channel Attacks on SHA-2 and HMAC
Antoine Moran, Maxime Lecomte, Julien Maillard, Benjamin Smith, Guénaël Renault
University Grenoble Alpes; CEA-Leti; LIX, INRIA, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ANSSI
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PHOENIX: Crypto-Agile Hardware Sharing for ML-KEM and HQC
Antonio Ras, Antoine Loiseau, Mikael Carmona, Simon Pontie, Guénaël Renault, Benjamin Smith, Emanuele Valea
CEA-Leti; ANSSI; LIX, INRIA, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; CEA-List
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Hotspot-induced Malicious in-System Aging on FPGAs
Bardia Babaei, Joseph Powell, Dirk Koch
Surrey Space Centre; University of Manchester; Heidelberg University
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An Efficient Variant of F4 Algorithm for Solving MQ Problem
Kosuke Sakata, Tsuyoshi Takagi
University of Tokyo
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Formal Verification, Integration and Physical Evaluation of Prime-Field Masking on Silicon
Gaëtan Cassiers, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Nicolai Müller, François-Xavier Standaert
Cryptoexperts; UCLouvain; Technical University of Darmstadt
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TCHES 2026, Issue 4
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S5: Combining white-box countermeasures to resist state-of-the-art attacks
Alex Charlès, Aleksei Udovenko
University of Luxembourg
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Turtle Walk: Stopping Timing Attack on NoC
Dipesh, Amit Kumar Singh, Urbi Chatterjee
IIT Kanpur; University of Essex
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RainHash2.0: Hardware- and Arithmetization-friendly Hash Function
Katharina Koschatko, Lorenzo Grassi, Florian Krieger, Shibam Mukherjee, Christian Rechberger, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Verena Schröppel, Markus Schofnegger, Jiamin Cui
Graz University of Technology; Eindhoven University of Technology; [[alloc] init]; Shandong University
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SoK: From Silicon to Netlist and Beyond – Two Decades of Hardware Reverse Engineering Research
Zehra Karadağ, Simon Klix, René Walendy, Felix Hahn, Kolja Dorschel, Julian Speith, Christof Paar, Steffen Becker
Ruhr University Bochum; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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SAFEDT: A Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Inference Framework Using Homomorphic Encryption
Shiwen Wei, Zhili Chen, Yanzhuo Yu, Xin Chen
East China Normal University
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Bit2Watt: A Cyber–Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures
Zhouhao Ji, Kaikai Pan, Wenyuan Xu
Zhejiang University
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Area Efficiency in Constant-Cycle Schemes - CCHPC1.1 and Architectural Overhead Reduction Applied to AES
Daniel Lammers, Lukas Weber, Amir Moradi
Ruhr University Bochum; TU Darmstadt
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Breaking the Area Limit of Composable Gadgets - High-Order Hardware Masking Circuits with O(d) Area Overhead
Chaoran Wang, Meiqin Wang, Lixuan Wu, Guowei Liu, Yanhong Fan
Shandong University
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Multiplicative Integer Division over Integer-wise TFHE
Kotaro Matsuoka, Yusuke Hoshizuki, Takashi Sato
Kyoto University; Axell Corporation
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Low-Stack HAETAE for Memory-Constrained Microcontrollers
YoungBeom Kim, Christine van Vredendaal, Gustavo Banegas, Seog Chung Seo
Kookmin University; NXP Semiconductors; INRIA
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Power Analysis and Countermeasures on the MiMC Block Cipher
Stefano Trevisani, Rishub Nagpal, Elena Andreeva, Stefan Mangard, Arnab Roy
TU Wien; Graz University of Technology; University of Innsbruck
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Trustless Delegation of Vector Commitment Construction in Resource-Constrained Settings
Parisa Hassanizadeh, Shahriar Ebrahimi, Stefan Dziembowski, Janusz Szczepanski
IPPT PAN; The Alan Turing Institute; Zero Savvy; University of Warsaw
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Efficient and Compact High-order Masking Raccoon on Memory Constrained Devices
Junhao Huang, Yiteng Sun, Jipeng Zhang, Weijia Wang, Donglong Chen, Haiyang Xue, Guomin Yang
Singapore Management University; Shandong University; National University of Singapore; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
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Refined Approx-SVP Rank Reduction Conditions and Adaptive Lattice Reduction for MSIS Security Estimation
Xiaohan Zhang, Zijian Zhou, Longjiang Qu
National University of Defense Technology
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Coupling Leakage in Theory and Practice - Unveiling (Post-PnR) Security Flaws in Masked FPGA-Mapped Designs
Nicolai Müller, Daniel Lammers, Simon Osterheider, Amir Moradi
TU Darmstadt; Ruhr University Bochum
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Pipelining FALCON’s Gaussian sampler: Towards practical FALCON acceleration
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SQISign on ARM
Luca De Feo, Li-Jie Jian, Ting-Yuan Wang, Bo-Yin Yang
IBM Research Europe; Academia Sinica; University of Southern California
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High-Throughput GPU Design and Implementation of MAYO with Matrix Computation Reordering
Haoyang Chen, Junhao Huang, Shutong Jin, Ray C. C. Cheung, Donglong Chen, Wangchen Dai
Sun Yat-sen University; Singapore Management University; City University of Hong Kong; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
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Low-Latency Low-Randomness First-Order OPINI Gadgets and Their Formal Verification
Lixuan Wu, Yanhong Fan, Guowei Liu, Chaoran Wang, Meiqin Wang
Shandong University
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Slicing Bits and Cutting Costs in CDT Sampling: High-Order Masking of FrodoKEM's Gaussian Sampler, Revisited
Calvin Abou Haidar, Thomas Espitau, Clément Hoffmann, Mehdi Tibouchi
NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; PQShield
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Adapting AES-Oriented Optimizations to Rijndael-256: Cortex-M4, ARMv8-A, and CUDA
Siwoo Eum, Minho Song, Minjoo Sim, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Hwajeong Seo
Hansung University; Nanyang Technological University
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TETRIS: Automated Design Space Exploration of Randomness–Latency Trade-offs in Masked Hardware
Nilotpola Sarma, Tapish Patidar, Nupur Brahamanya, Chandan Karfa
IIT Guwahati
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TAME: A Deep Learning-based Blind Side-Channel Analysis Framework
Jintong Yu, Yuxuan Wang, Pei Cao, Zixin He, Yubo Zhao, Zhiliang An, Yipeng Shi, Chi Zhang, Dawu Gu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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The σ0 Side Channel: Single-Trace State Recovery from NIST SP 800-90A Hash-DRBG
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Hybrid Parallel SHA-3 and its Applications to Fiat-Shamir with Aborts Signatures
Runqing Xu, Debiao He, Cong Peng, Min Luo
Wuhan University
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TP-NTT: Batch NTT Hardware with Application to Relinearization
Emre Koçer, Tolun Tosun, Beren Aydoğan, Erkay Savaş, Furkan Turan, Ingrid Verbauwhede
Sabancı University; KU Leuven
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CAPSS: A Framework for SNARK-Friendly Post-Quantum Signatures
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How Strong is the FO-Calypse, Really? Instantiating Plaintext-Checking Oracles against Masked Software Implementations of ML-KEM
Brieuc Balon, Gaëtan Cassiers, Thibaud Schoenauen, François-Xavier Standaert
UCLouvain; CryptoExperts
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An Efficient End-to-end Algorithm for Optimizing the S-Box Circuit
Yao Sun, Min Zhang, Ting Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Faulting an 8 nm FinFET technology SoC using Photon Emission Microscopy-assisted LFI
Thomas Ravelet, Jean-Max Dutertre, Raphael Viera, Rodrigo Silva Lima, Nicolas Falletto, Florian Le Mounier
ALPhANOV; EMSE
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Key-Recovery Side-Channel Attack on the Berlekamp-Massey Decoding Algorithm in the Classic McEliece KEM
Andrei Alexei, Marios Omar Choudary, Vlad-Florin Drăgoi
University Politehnica of Bucharest; Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad
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GlitchSnipe: Toward Localized Voltage Fault Attacks
Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Hamed Okhravi, Shahin Tajik
Worcester Polytechnic Institute; MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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From Multiplication to Recovery: A Single-trace Side-Channel Attack on HQC
Yikang Guo, Yuchang Hu, Yanbin Li, Shilin Sun, Geng Chen, Chunpeng Ge, Jiankuo Dong
Shandong University; University of Science and Technology of China
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The SMAesH dataset - Leakage of a Masked Hardware AES with Information-theoretic Security Bounds
Gaëtan Cassiers, Charles Momin
CryptoExperts; Belgian National Security Authority; UCLouvain
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SHARMONY: Composing SHA-2 and SHA-3 Hardware for Crypto-Agile PQC
Liga Anwar, Carlos Andres Lara-Nino, Jong-Yeon Park, Michael Hutter
Universität der Bundeswehr München
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A Unified RISC-V Vector Framework for Large-Scale NTT in FHE and ZKP
Yilin Dong, Zhansheng Ye, Zhengyi Zhao, Shiqing Li, Zhuoran Ji, Weijia Wang, Lei Ju
Shandong University; Quan Cheng Laboratory
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Efficient Polynomial Multiplication for HQC on ARM Cortex-M4
Jihoon Jang, Myeonghoon Lee, Donggeun Kwon, Seokhie Hong, Suhri Kim, Sangjin Lee
Korea University; Samsung Electronics System LSI Business; Kunsan National University; SmartM2M; Sungshin Women’s University
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