[Resource Topic] 2020/410: Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation (SIKE) Round 2 on ARM Cortex-M4

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Title:
Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation (SIKE) Round 2 on ARM Cortex-M4

Authors: Hwajeong Seo, Mila Anastasova, Amir Jalali, Reza Azarderakhsh

Abstract:

We present the first practical software implementation of Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation (SIKE) round 2, targeting NIST’s 1, 2, 3, and 5 security levels on 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers. The proposed library introduces a new speed record of all SIKE Round 2 protocols with reasonable memory consumption on the low-end target platforms. We achieved this record by adopting several state-of-the-art engineering techniques as well as highly-optimized hand-crafted assembly implementation of finite field arithmetic. In particular, we carefully redesign the previous optimized implementations of finite field arithmetic on the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 platform and propose a set of novel techniques which are explicitly suitable for SIKE primes. The benchmark result on STM32F4 Discovery board equipped with 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers shows that entire key encapsulation and decapsultation over SIKEp434 take about 184 million clock cycles (i.e. 1.09 seconds @168MHz). In contrast to the previous optimized implementation of the isogeny-based key exchange on low-end 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4, our performance evaluation shows feasibility of using SIKE mechanism on the target platform. In comparison to the most of the post-quantum candidates, SIKE requires an excessive number of arithmetic operations, resulting in significantly slower timings. However, its small key size makes this scheme as a promising candidate on low-end microcontrollers in the quantum era by ensuring the lower energy consumption for key transmission than other schemes.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/410

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