Today’s security won’t survive tomorrow’s quantum computing. That’s why, as part of the CLEVER Project, we’ve deployed a fully PQC-protected network stack on NVIDIA’s BlueField-2 Data Processing Units (DPUs), achieving data center linerates with in-line PQC acceleration.
Q1: What did we implement?
Two full-stack post-quantum handshake protocols:
🔹 Falcon/Kyber
🔹 Dilithium/Kyber
Both use PQC signature + key encapsulation schemes directly on DPUs.
Q2: How do they compare?
🔹 Dilithium is faster, but more bandwidth-hungry.
🔹 Falcon is lighter and better for constrained IoT/deep-edge use cases.
Q3: What makes this stack unique?
🔹 Real-world testing at 100 Gbps
🔹 Hardware accelerators for cryptographic tasks
🔹 Benchmarking across 10,000 runs for CPU load, latency, and throughput
🔹 Full integration with OpenSSL + secure ephemeral AES-256 key generation
Here’s the overall vision👇
🌐 CLEVER is building secure, resilient edge-cloud infrastructures that won’t break when quantum does.
📌 Explore more: https://www.cleverproject.eu
📌 Read the full paper from Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14944519
