Vendor:
EnSilica
Category:
Post Quantum
PQC CRYSTALS core for accelerating NIST FIPS 202 FIPS 203 and FIPS 204
eSi-Crystals is a hardware core for accelerating the high-level operations specified in the NIST FIPS 202, FIPS 203 and FIPS 204 …
Overview
eSi-Crystals is a hardware core for accelerating the high-level operations specified in the NIST FIPS 202, FIPS 203 and FIPS 204 standards.
It supports the Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices (CRYSTALS), it is lattice-based digital signature algorithm designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers, placing it in the category of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Unlike traditional , Crystals relies on the complexity of lattice problems, specifically the challenge of finding short vectors in a lattice.
Dilithium aims to provide a secure digital signature solution that remains resilient in the face of potential threats posed by quantum computers, which have the capacity to compromise conventional public-key cryptography algorithms like RSA and ECC.
CRYSTALS encompasses two cryptographic primitives: Kyber, a secure KEM, and Dilithium, a strongly EUF-CMA-secure digital signature algorithm.
Key features
- Si-Crystals is a hardware core for accelerating the high-level operations specified in the NIST
- FIPS 202, FIPS 203 and FIPS 204:
- FIPS 202: SHA-3 Standard: Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-Output Functions :
- Supported Operations:
- SHA3-224
- SHA3-256
- SHA3-384
- SHA3-512
- SHAKE128
- SHAKE256
- Configurable Keccak Core;
- Automatic Input message padding according to FIPS 202;
- Double Input/Output Data Buffer, allowing absorbing/Squeezing a data block while the Keccak core is busy processing another data block;
- AMBA AXI-Stream interface for controlling the core and loading input and unloading output data sets.
- FIPS 203: Module Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) standard.
- Supported operations:
- Key Generation
- Encapsulation
- Decapsulation
- Supports all security levels specified in FIPS 203:
- ML-KEM-512
- ML-KEM-768
- ML-KEM-1024
- Supported operations:
- FIPS 204: Module Lattice Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA) standard .
- Supported operations:
- Key Generation
- Sign
- Verify
- Supports all security levels specified in FIPS 204:
- ML-DSA-44
- ML-DSA-65
- ML-DSA-87
- Supported operations:
- Configurable arithmetic unit architecture for achieving the required performance and silicon area
- Constant time operations for resistance against time analysis attacks
Block Diagram
eSi-Crystals block diagram
Applications
- Automotive
- Datacentres
- Networking
- Space
- Military
- Industrial IoT
- Medical
- Telecommunications
- Banking
- Government
What’s Included?
- System Verilog RTL
- C Model
- Testbench
- Software libraries
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
eSi-Crystals
Vendor
EnSilica
Type
Silicon IP
Files
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Provider
HQ:
UK
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