PAVOIS

The main objective of this proposal is the design and distribution of an open source hardware (FPGA/ASIC), together with the programming tools and documentations, dedicated to efficient and secure curve-based cryptography. We shall study the impact of novel protection schemes against various kind of side-channel attacks, in particular we will assess the robustness of countermeasures based on non-conventional, redundant arithmetic schemes. Another ambitious objective of our proposal if the extension of our FPGA processor to handle all the arithmetic operations required for implementing the cryptosystems based on hyperelliptic curves. On the practical side, we will design innovative cryptographic hardware architectures of a specific processor based on the theoretical advancements described above to implement curve based protocols. We will target efficient and secure implementations for both FPGA an ASIC circuits. A specific part of the budget will be devoted to ASIC implementation (foundry) of the processor. After test and validation of the circuit, we plan to distribute some samples of the circuit to a few french research groups in academy and government organisations for collaborations.