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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C8102E;mso-ligatures:none">Implementing Efficient Hamming Quasi Cyclic Signatures for Securing Internet of Things<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Abdullah Abubakar</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Committee Chair:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dr Yuhua Chen, DSc.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dr Jinghong Chen, Ph.D. | Dr Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Quantum computers are becoming increasingly potent at cracking encrypted communications at the weak nodes in Internet of Things, given their real limitations in processing
power, hardware availability and latency. As a result, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is gaining momentum, with code-based approaches such as Hamming Quasi Cyclic currently undergoing NIST’s fourth round of standardization.
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">This study delves into the major challenges of polynomial storage, multiplication and decoder design which are part of implementing HQC signatures for verifying devices
in a network. This work investigates a design on Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA for determining system flow via simulation software, providing comparative study and addressing key design concerns. Toward this end, a host of optimization approaches are discussed and verified
with experiments. Open source code is used to analyze the system dynamics in an optimized HQC implementation to understand the nuances of design considerations and choices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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