Talk Intermediate

Hardware Acceleration of Cryptographic Systems

Proposal status is Rejected

Session Description

• The session will cover the fundamentals of today's cryptographic systems that drive the blockchain space and the need to accelerate micro-operations on hardware like ASICs, FPGAs and GPUs.
• The talk will mainly highlight the benefits of using FPGA for research and development of accelerators for proof systems within blockchain systems.
• Proving work or stake on the blockchain involves large field operations on an elliptic curve which proves to be highly compute and memory intensive.
• The talk will discuss ways to streamline this high compute and memory demands by leveraging the inherent parallelism offered by FPGA devices.
• The FOSS tools and projects utilized in the development of the acceleration systems and our contributions to these tools will also be discussed.

References

https://hackmd.io/@Cysic/BJQcpVbXn

Session Categories

FOSS

Speakers

Suhas Kudlur Viswanath Hardware Engineer | Arithmic Labs

• Leading the research and development of FPGA acceleration of cryptographic proof systems and layer-2 transactions at Arithmic Labs.
• Open-source software and hardware enthusiast.
• Professional spender on audiophile gear and running gear.