Post-Quantum Message Authentication Codes (MACs) and Performance Benchmarking.

This project presents a comparative performance analysis of newly proposed post-quantum secure Message Authentication Codes (MACs) in comparison to conventional MACs. The proposed constructions are designed with post-quantum cryptographic resilience in mind.

The correctness of the post-quantum MACs holds under the following parameter constraints:

• m is an integer in the interval [2,21],

• q is a prime number in the interval [m^2,m^3].

• Parameter Selection

  • To enhance security, select $q$ as a prime number within the interval:

    $$
    q \in [5*\text{prevprime}(m^3)/6, m^3]
    $$
    
    where $\text{prevprime}(n)$ returns the largest prime less than or equal to $n$
    

This repository includes:

The implementation of the proposed post-quantum MAC schemes,

Benchmark results comparing them with classical MACs (e.g., HMAC, CMAC)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10794713 doi:10.1109/UNet62310.2024.10794713