CCNY's Rosario Gennaro [left] and Tushar Jois are involved in NSF-funded research to speed up cryptographic computing.
CUNY Distinguished Professor Rosario Gennaro and Assistant Professor , two of 海角社区鈥檚 leading cryptography experts, are participants in a led by New York University to speed up cryptographic computing. Stanford University is the other institution involved in the four-year research helmed by .
The challenge facing the team is that the most advanced cryptographic computing technologies today 鈥 which enable privacy-preserving computation 鈥 are confined in research labs by one critical barrier: they're orders of magnitude too slow for everyday use. The researchers鈥 goal is to build the missing infrastructure that could make those technologies practical, via a new design platform and library that will allow engineers and researchers to develop and share the design of computer chips specialized in speeding up cryptographic operations.
The team's proposed solution is a new platform called ".鈥
Currently, researchers working on crypto-accelerator chips must build everything from scratch. Cryptolets will provide three things: a library where researchers can share and access pre-built, optimized hardware designs for privacy computing; tools that allow multiple smaller chips to work together as one powerful system; and automated testing to ensure contributed designs work correctly and securely.
This chiplet approach 鈥 using multiple small, specialized chips working together 鈥 is a departure from traditional single, monolithic chip optimization, potentially breaking through performance barriers.
At The City College鈥檚 Grove School of Engineering, Jois will be working on developing performance benchmarking for the infrastructure and on outreach and engagement through initiatives that create tutorials and integrate Cryptolets into undergraduate and graduate curricula. Gennaro will be providing the theoretical foundations for the benchmarks and infrastructure as well as working on new advances in cryptography and network security that will be enabled by the Cryptolets infrastructure.
The two will be assisted by , a PhD student in electrical engineering.
to read more about the NYU Tandon-led 'Cryptolets' project.
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