FPGA implementation of a run-time configurable NTT-based polynomial multiplication hardware

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Mert, Ahmet Can and Öztürk, Erdinç and Savaş, Erkay (2020) FPGA implementation of a run-time configurable NTT-based polynomial multiplication hardware. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 78 . ISSN 0141-9331 (Print) 1872-9436 (Online)

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Abstract

Multiplication of polynomials of large degrees is the predominant operation in lattice-based cryptosystems in terms of execution time. This motivates the study of its fast and efficient implementations in hardware. Also, applications such as those using homomorphic encryption need to operate with polynomials of different parameter sets. This calls for design of configurable hardware architectures that can support multiplication of polynomials of various degrees and coefficient sizes. In this work, we present the design and an FPGA implementation of a run-time configurable and highly parallelized NTT-based polynomial multiplication architecture, which proves to be effective as an accelerator for lattice-based cryptosystems. The proposed polynomial multiplier can also be used to perform Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) and Inverse NTT (INTT) operations. It supports 6 different parameter sets, which are used in lattice-based homomorphic encryption and/or post-quantum cryptosystems. We also present a hardware/software co-design framework, which provides high-speed communication between the CPU and the FPGA connected by PCIe standard interface provided by the RIFFA driver [1]. For proof of concept, the proposed polynomial multiplier is deployed in this framework to accelerate the decryption operation of Brakerski/Fan-Vercauteren (BFV) homomorphic encryption scheme implemented in Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (SEAL), by the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft Research [2]. In the proposed framework, polynomial multiplication operation in the decryption of the BFV scheme is offloaded to the accelerator in the FPGA via PCIe bus while the rest of operations in the decryption are executed in software running on an off-the-shelf desktop computer. The hardware part of the proposed framework targets Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA device and the proposed framework achieves the speedup of almost 7 × in latency for the offloaded operations compared to their pure software implementations, excluding I/O overhead.
Item Type: Article
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7800-8360 Electronics > TK7885-7895 Computer engineering. Computer hardware
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA075 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Computer Science & Eng.
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Electronics
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Erkay Savaş
Date Deposited: 22 Sep 2020 15:23
Last Modified: 03 Aug 2023 14:30
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/40594

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