Why Protecting Post-Quantum Cryptography Matters
FortiPQC Post-Quantum Cryptography
Classical public-key algorithms such as RSA and ECC will become insecure once large-scale quantum computers are available. Attackers are already harvesting encrypted data today to decrypt later, once quantum computers become powerful enough to break today’s public-key algorithms.
To address this risk, post-quantum algorithms ML-KEM and ML-DSA, based on CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, respectively, have been recently standardized by NIST in FIPS 203 and FIPS 204, and are rapidly being adopted worldwide. However, these algorithms are extremely prone to side-channel and fault injection attacks, including side-channel attacks that require only one trace.
Masking-based approaches to the security of post-quantum algorithms have a significant cost in performance, gate count, and power consumption. And many of these masking-based protected implementations have been broken in academia.
FortifyIQ’s algorithmic solution follows the same design principles as FortifyIQ’s AES protection schemes, which have passed AVA.VAN.5 evaluation by a leading Common Criteria lab, and are deployed in millions of devices.
FortifyIQ provides FortiPQC, certifiable, attack-resistant post-quantum cryptography, compliant with FIPS 203/204/205, NIST SP 800-208, and ETSI TS 103 619.
Our implementations of ML-KEM and ML-DSA, as defined in the NIST PQC standards, are hardened at the implementation level, ensuring post-quantum algorithms’ resilience to side-channel and fault injection attacks across hardware, software, and hybrid deployments.
FortiPQC secures any device or system, from the smallest embedded controller to large-scale computing infrastructure, future-proofing security without compromising efficiency.
Features excellent PPA efficiency with robust protection against side-channel and fault-injection attacks.
Tunable to each deployment’s needs. Ideal for future-proof security in embedded systems, chips, and chiplets.
