Date of Award
5-2020
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Information Assurance: M.S.
Department
Information Assurance and Information Systems
College
Herberger School of Business
First Advisor
Dennis Guster
Second Advisor
Erich Rice
Third Advisor
Mark Schmidt
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Post-Quantum Cryptography, IoT Devices, SUPERCOP
Abstract
With tens of billions of new IoT devices being utilized, and the advent of quantum computing, our future and our security needs are rapidly changing. While IoT devices have great potential to transform the way we live, they also have a number of serious problems centering on their security capabilities. Quantum computers capable of breaking today’s encryption are just around the corner, and we will need to securely communicate over the internet using the encryption of the future. Post-quantum public-key encryption and key-establishment algorithms may be the answer to address those concerns. This paper used the benchmarking toolkit SUPERCOP to analyze the performance of post-quantum public-key encryption and key-establishment algorithms on IoT devices that are using ARMv8 CPUs. The performance of the NIST round 2 algorithms were found to not be significantly different between the two ARMv8 devices.
Recommended Citation
Zakrajsek, Sean, "Performance Analysis of NIST Round 2 Post-Quantum Cryptography Public-key Encryption and Key-establishment Algorithms on ARMv8 IoT Devices using SUPERCOP" (2020). Culminating Projects in Information Assurance. 104.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/msia_etds/104
Comments/Acknowledgements
Acknowledgement
A sincere thank you to my thesis committee, and all those at NIST who provided support and guidance. I am especially grateful to those at NIST who took their time to meet with me, and generously shared their PQC expertise.