ArcticCrypt 2025

22 April 2025

The paper ‘Efficient Boolean-to-Arithmetic Mask Conversion in Hardware’ by Dr Aein Shahmirzadi and Prof. Hutter was recently accepted for the ArcticCrypt 2025 conference, which will take place in Longyearbyen, Svalbard from 6 to 11 July 2025.

The paper presents an efficient method for converting Boolean to arithmetic masking in hardware - a key building block for the secure implementation of cryptographic algorithms against side-channel attacks. The proposed approach is characterised by low latency and resource utilisation and is therefore particularly suitable for use in embedded systems. A preprint of the paper is available in the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1633.

Image: The iconic ‘pointy houses’ of Longyearbyen, Norway. ©Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

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