2026-06-09 –, Poster Island B
The PQC4eMRTD is a CSA (Coordination and Support Action) project funded by the European Commission, which focuses on monitoring and influencing the standardization space of Post Quantum Security with a particular focus on machine readable travel documents (MRTDs) such as national identification cards, passports and other personal documents. These types of documents include tiny microprocessors which interact with RFID devices in order to read sensitive personal information (e.g. biographic and biometric data) stored securely on the document, and allows the authentication of a person. Existing documents use conventional cryptographic algorithms which will be vulnerable to quantum computer attacks, especially considering the long validity period of such documents. For this reason, there is an interest in planning their migration to post quantum cryptographic algorithms in a standardized way. This abstract focuses on the work performed in the project within RISC-V systems, which extends to other types of resource constrained systems.
Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis is the Group Leader of the Hardware Dependability for Embedded Systems (HADES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Faculty member at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His research interests include hardware and software design for high performance safe and secure embedded systems, and particularly GPUs. He was the recipient of the RISC-V Educator of the Year Award in 2019 and he is involved in several standardisation efforts around RISC-V, hardware design and GPUs for safety critical systems.