ECEN 681 Seminar Spring 2026 Dr. Srini Devadas (Distinguished Speaker) скачать в хорошем качестве

ECEN 681 Seminar Spring 2026 Dr. Srini Devadas (Distinguished Speaker)

Title: "Toward a Universal Cryptographic Accelerator" Talking points: Why cryptography rarely makes it into hardware and why that’s changing Hardware cryptography co-design unlocks order-of-magnitude gains Abstract: There have been few high-impact deployments of hardware implementations of cryptographic primitives. We present the benefits and challenges of hardware acceleration of sophisticated cryptographic primitives and protocols, and we describe work on accelerating fully homomorphic encryption using custom hardware by orders of magnitude over multicore CPUs and GPUs. We argue the significant potential for synergistic codesign of cryptography and hardware, where customized hardware accelerates cryptographic protocols that are designed with hardware acceleration in mind. As a concrete example, we present a new design of a zeroknowledge proof (ZKP) accelerator that leverages hardware-algorithm co-design to generate proofs orders of magnitude faster than commodity parallel hardware. In order to mitigate the high cost of designing custom hardware, we propose the design of a universal cryptographic accelerator that can accelerate post-quantum as well as number-theoretic cryptography. Biography: Srini Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. Devadas has worked in the fields of Computer-Aided Design, computer architecture, computer security, and applied cryptography. His work in these fields has resulted in eight "test-of-time" awards, given to papers at least ten years after publication, and resulted in deployments in commercial secure hardware circuits and processors, and popular messaging applications. Devadas is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and an Everett Moore Baker teaching award recipient, considered MIT's two highest undergraduate teaching honors.