Digital signatures play a crucial role in our everyday lives, safeguarding the authenticity of financial transactions, legal agreements, and digital media. However, the rise of quantum computing threatens the security of most currently deployed digital signature algorithms.

The poster “A Versatile and Unified HQC Hardware Accelerator” presented at the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2024), won the Best Poster Award. The poster was written by Francesco Antognazza, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Ruggero Susella from ST Microelectronics.