International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The number of space-based entities and missions is showing exceptional increase. The longevity of satellites and their associated infrastructure along with the difficulty of changing anything after the launch requires long-term public key cryptography security solutions. Since the foreseeable breakthrough of quantum computers represents a risk for the traditional secure communication paradigm used today, novel Quantum-resistant cryptographic schemes need the immediate attention of the cryptographic community, especially of long-term use cases like satellite communications. This project will take up these new PQC algorithms (from the NIST PQC) and their implementations and test, evaluate, and scrutinize them given a wide range of fundamental design constraints and implementation requirements for the space communication. Lattice based cryptography has emerged as one of the most viable classes of PQC algorithms in the NIST PQC competition, however, several aspects relating to the practicality of this schemes for space communications protocols and its fault tolerance has not been thoroughly evaluated.

Applicants must have at least a 2:1 Honours Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related discipline.

International studentships are also available.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Dr. Ayesha Khalid

More information: https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/fault-tolerant-post-quantum-cryptography-systems-for-satellite-communications.html