Fast exhaustive search for quadratic systems in double-struck F2 on FPGAs

  • Charles Bouillaguet
  • , Chen Mou Cheng
  • , Tung Chou
  • , Ruben Niederhagen*
  • , Bo Yin Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In 2010, Bouillaguet et al. proposed an efficient solver for polynomial systems over double-struck F2 that trades memory for speed [BCC+10]. As a result, 48 quadratic equations in 48 variables can be solved on a graphics processing unit (GPU) in 21 min. The research question that we would like to answer in this paper is how specifically designed hardware performs on this task. We approach the answer by solving multivariate quadratic systems on reconfigurable hardware, namely Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). We show that, although the algorithm proposed in [BCC+10] has a better asymptotic time complexity than traditional enumeration algorithms, it does not have a better asymptotic complexity in terms of silicon area. Nevertheless, our FPGA implementation consumes 20-25 times less energy than its GPU counterpart. This is a significant improvement, not to mention that the monetary cost per unit of computational power for FPGAs is generally much cheaper than that of GPUs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSelected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2013 - 20th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages205-222
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783662434130
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event20th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2013 - Burnaby, BC, Canada
Duration: 14 08 201316 08 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8282 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2013
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBurnaby, BC
Period14/08/1316/08/13

Keywords

  • Exhaustive search
  • Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
  • Multivariate quadratic polynomials
  • Parallelization
  • Solving systems of equations

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