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2025-08-28 Meeting Notes

2025-08-28 Meeting Notes

Date

Oct 14, 2024

Disclosures

RVI_Disclosures_Female_Short.mp4

Participants

Name

Affiliation

Name

Affiliation

@Markku-Juhani Saarinen

Tampere University

@Krzysztof Kwiatkowski

PQShield

@Cay Blomqvist

Individual

@Luis Fiolhais

Individual

@Akira Tsukamoto

OpenChip

@Al Martin

Akeana

@G. Richard Newell

Microchip

Alex ?

unaffiliated. left at start of meeting

Tolga Yalcin

Qualcomm

@Nicolas Brunie

SiFive

@Radim Krcmar (Unlicensed)

Ventana

Agenda

Last meeting minutes 2025-08-21 Meeting Notes : approved
CRYPTO SIG election concluded
@Markku-Juhani Saarinen was elected chair
@Nicolas Brunie was elected vice-chair
In the future minutes of the shared minutes will be moved to the CRYPTO SIG space
@Markku-Juhani Saarinen suggests submitting the same Charter that was discussed back in March
Worked on with @Andrew Dellow

Cryptography SIG 

 

Cryptography is one of the foundations of secure and trusted system. 

The Cryptography SIG will monitor and examine developments in cryptography and their implications to RISC-V on an ongoing basis, and define the strategy for robust, performant cryptography within RISC-V. 

Scope 

Monitor and Examine developments in the field of cryptography, particularly their implications for RISC-V,. including areas such as 

  • New Algorithms 

  • Protocols 

  • Standards 

  • Attacks 

Define the Cryptography strategy for RISC-V to ensure compliance, efficiency, performance and robustness are state of the art. 

Consider the need for new task groups to address requirements as they arise, and propose these to the Security HC 

Coordinate with other task groups and HCs, ICs

@Markku-Juhani Saarinen needs to submit the charter for public review ? (send mail help@riscv.org)

No request for change on the Charter, group approves it as is
RISC-V News
August 29th is the last day for RISC-V Summit NA members' day proposal
Room 202, from 11 AM to Noon on October 21st for SIG/TGs meeting
This meeting will be renamed to be the Crypto SIG meeting
Industry NEWs
ASCON has been standardized https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/08/nist-finalizes-lightweight-cryptography-standard-protect-small-devices , @Markku-Juhani Saarinen sent an email regarding how it can already be implemented with the current RVV extensions
Similar to a small version of Keccak (320 bits vs 1600, 5 64-bit words)
Good fit for scalar (easier on RV64), but core permutation is difficult to vectorize (except through batching)
NIST is promising FALCON will be standardized soon
RVIA may need an implementation response
Falcon should represent an improvement (compared to DILITHIUM) for TLS
Could exploit fixed-point instruction from RVV 1.0
New version of HQC (not close to standardization), seen as an alternative to Kyber for KEM purpose
Vector Crypto fast track: nothing to report
High Assurance Cryptography
No meeting this week
@Ruud Derwig will chair side meeting next Monday (Sept 1st) as @G. Richard Newell will be unavailable
Post Quantum Cryptography
Announcement for next week (September 4th)
@G. Richard Newell and @Nicolas Brunie will be unavailable
@Markku-Juhani Saarinen may have difficult joining
Markku and Nicolas will reach out to @Ruud Derwig to see if he wants to host the meeting

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