Hardware security entering quantum computing era

A new IP offering post quantum cryptography (PQC) hardware security is now available for chip and system providers to secure data center and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The Quantum Safe security IP unveiled by Rambus aims to safeguard data centers and advanced workloads like generative AI against quantum attacks.

Quantum computers will be able to rapidly break current asymmetric encryption, so the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been busy identifying post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016. According to Heather West, research manager of Quantum Computing Research at IDC, these algorithms will be better suited for protecting critical government and public infrastructure from entities looking to steal data now to decrypt later using quantum computing.

Next, the NIST announced its first four post-quantum computing recommendations, which means system designers can start implementing quantum-resistant cryptography. Quantum Safe IP from Rambus is an effort to provide the root of trust for data center and communications security in the quantum computing era.

The company’s root of trust IP uses the two quantum-compute resistant cryptographic algorithms selected by the NIST: CRYSTALS-Kyber for key encapsulation and CRYSTALS-Dilithium for digital signatures.

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Source: Rambus

The security IP also supports the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA) algorithms for software and firmware updates, including XMSS/LMS stateful hash firmware signatures, CNSA symmetric-key algorithms, and CNSA quantum-resistant public-key algorithms.

Rambus’ root of trust security solution features a programmable 32-bit secure processor and supports Open Compute Project (OCP) Caliptra root of trust for measurement with DICE and X.509. It also features true random number generator (TRNG) and physical unclonable function (PUF) entropy source.

Quantum Safe security IP comes with a software development kit (SDK) for user development of secure and trusted applications.

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