International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2026

Vectorized Falcon-Sign Implementations using SSE2, AVX2, AVX-512F, NEON, and RVV


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The opt/fft_neon.c is derived from the implementation 
(https://github.com/GMUCERG/Falcon_NEON) that belongs to the paper 
"Fast Falcon Signature Generation and Verification Using ARMv8 NEON Instructions" 
by Duc Tri Nguyen and Prof. Kris Gaj at CERG GMU, accepted to AfricaCrypt 2023.

   Copyright 2023 Duc Tri Nguyen and Prof. Kris Gaj at CERG GMU

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