[Resource Topic] 2023/1767: The Impact of Hash Primitives and Communication Overhead for Hardware-Accelerated SPHINCS+

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Title:
The Impact of Hash Primitives and Communication Overhead for Hardware-Accelerated SPHINCS+

Authors: Patrick Karl, Jonas Schupp, Georg Sigl

Abstract:

SPHINCS+ is a signature scheme included in the first NIST post-quantum standard, that bases its security on the underlying hash primitive. As most of the runtime of SPHINCS+ is caused by the evaluation of several hash- and pseudo-random functions, instantiated via the hash primitive, offloading this computation to dedicated hardware accelerators is a natural step. In this work, we evaluate different architectures for hardware acceleration of such a hash primitive with respect to its use-case and evaluate them in the context of SPHINCS+. We attach hardware accelerators for different hash primitives (SHAKE256 and Asconxof for both full and round-reduced versions) to CPU interfaces having different transfer speeds. We show, that for most use-cases, data transfer determines the overall performance if accelerators are equipped with FIFOs.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1767

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