RT Journal Article
T1 Wireless and fiber-based post-quantum-cryptography-secured IPsec tunnel
A1 Lawo, Daniel Christian
A1 Abu Bakar, Rana
A1 Cano Aguilera, Abraham
A1 Cugini, Filippo
A1 Imaña Pascual, José Luis
A1 Tafur Monroy, Idelfonso
A1 Vegas Olmos, Juan José
AB In the near future, commercially accessible quantum computers are anticipated to revolutionize the world as we know it. These advanced machines are predicted to render traditional cryptographic security measures, deeply ingrained in contemporary communication, obsolete. While symmetric cryptography methods like AES can withstand quantum assaults if key sizes are doubled compared to current standards, asymmetric cryptographic techniques, such as RSA, are vulnerable to compromise. Consequently, there is a pressing need to transition towards post-quantum cryptography (PQC) principles in order to safeguard our privacy effectively. A challenge is to include PQC into existing protocols and thus into the existing communication structure. In this work, we report on the first experimental IPsec tunnel secured by the PQC algorithms Falcon, Dilithium, and Kyber. We deploy our IPsec tunnel in two scenarios. The first scenario represents a high-performance data center environment where many machines are interconnected via high-speed networks. We achieve an IPsec tunnel with an AES-256 GCM encrypted east–west throughput of 100 Gbit/s line rate. The second scenario shows an IPsec tunnel between a wireless NVIDIA Jetson and the cloud that achieves a 0.486 Gbit/s AES-256 GCM encrypted north–south throughput. This case represents a mobile device that communicates securely with applications running in the cloud.
PB MDPI
YR 2024
FD 2024-08-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112467
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112467
LA eng
NO Lawo, D.C.; Abu Bakar, R.; Cano Aguilera, A.; Cugini, F.; Imaña, J.L.; Tafur Monroy, I.; Vegas Olmos, J.J. Wireless and Fiber-Based Post-Quantum-Cryptography-Secured IPsec Tunnel. Future Internet 2024, 16, 300. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16080300
NO QUARK project-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions with grant number 101073355CLEVER-KDTJU-Grant agreement ID: 101097560
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 29 abr 2025