Accelerating HQC for Post-Quantum TLS 1.3 on x86 IoT Gateways
The work optimized HQC for TLS 1.3 using AVX2 and AVX-512 instructions with GFNI extensions on x86 processors. These optimizations significantly reduced computational costs for key generation, encapsulation, and decapsulation compared to previous methods. Evaluations on constrained networks showed that while implementation speed improved, communication sizes of HQC determined the total handshake time.