Quantum resistant communications: Advance Learning in applied PQC Training

Project Information

QUARC

Grant agreement ID: 101073355

DOI

10.3030/101073355

Project closed

EC signature date 7 July 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 2 215 893,60

Coordinated by

NVIDIA DENMARK APS
Denmark

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Wireless and Fiber-Based Post-Quantum-Cryptography-Secured IPsec Tunnel

Author(s): Daniel Christian Lawo, Rana Abu Bakar, Abraham Cano Aguilera, Filippo Cugini, José Luis Imaña, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos
Published in: Future Internet, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/FI16080300

Offloading Post-Quantum Cryptography to Data Processing Units: A Performance Analysis of HQC Key Encapsulation

Author(s): Joseph Meyer, Elad Mentovich, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3681219

First end‐to‐end PQC protected DPU‐to‐DPU communications

Author(s): A. Cano Aguilera, X. Arnal i Clemente, D.C. Lawo, I. Tafur Monroy, J.J. Vegas Olmos
Published in: Electronics Letters, Issue 59, 2023, ISSN 0013-5194
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
DOI: 10.1049/ELL2.12901

QRoNS: Quantum Resilience over IPsec Tunnels for Network Slicing

Author(s): Dimosthenis Iliadis-Apostolidis, Daniel Christian Lawo, Sokol Kosta, Idelfonso Tafur Tafur Monroy, Juan Jose Vegas Vegas Olmos
Published in: Electronics, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14214234

Falcon/Kyber and Dilithium/Kyber Network Stack on Nvidia’s Data Processing Unit Platform

Author(s): Daniel Lawo (Corresponding author), Raphaël Frantz, Abraham Cano Aguilera, Xavi Arnal I Clemente, Michał Podleś, José L. Imana, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, J.J. Vegas Olmos
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3374629

In-line rate encrypted links using pre-shared post-quantum keys and DPUs

Author(s): Abraham Cano Aguilera, Carlos Rubio Garcia, Daniel Lawo, José Luis Imaña, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan José Vegas Olmos
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-71861-X

Conference proceedings (25)

QKD Post-Processing Offload on BlueField-3 DPUs: Towards Quantum-Secured RDMA in Datacenter Fabrics

Author(s): Joseph G. Meyer, J. J. Vegas Olmos, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Published in: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Towards Accelerating the Network Performance on DPUs by optimising the P4 runtime

Author(s): Dimosthenis Iliadis-Apostolidis, Khalid Manaa, Matty Kadosh, Iacovos Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou, Sokol Kosta, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos
Published in: 2024 32nd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PDP62718.2024.00040

Integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography Plugins for IPsec Offloads to Data Processing Units in the Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Abraham Cano, Carlos Rubio Garcia, Raphaël Frantz, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, José Luis Imaña, Juan José Vegas
Published in: 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858568

SNSVS: Scalable Network Slicing with Virtualized Systems using Post-Quantum Cryptography

Author(s): Dimosthenis Iliadis-Apostolidis, Daniel C Lawo, Sokol Kosta, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos
Published in: GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431714

Cross-Layer Observability for Intrusion Detection in Confidential AI Training Clusters

Author(s): Astrid Barreiro Berrio, Joseph G. Meyer, Daniel Christian Lawo, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, JJ. Vegas Olmos
Published in: 2026 26th IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

ARM Architecture Optimizations for Line-Rate PQC Communications

Author(s): A. Cano Aguilera, I. Tafur Monroy, J. J. Vegas Olmos, José L. Imaña
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ONDM65745.2025.11029331

Quantum-Resistant TLS 1.3: A Hybrid Solution Combining Classical, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography

Author(s): Carlos Rubio Garcia, Abraham Cano Aguilera, Juan José Vegas Olmos, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Simon Rommel
Published in: 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, CAMAD 2023, 2024
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD59638.2023.10478407

Post-Quantum Cryptography for Quantum Resilient Data Transfer

Author(s): Abraham Cano, José Luis Imaña, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan José Vegas
Published in: 2025 25th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125195

Future Data Centers: Hardware-Offloaded Post-Quantum Secure Optical IPsec Tunnel for Confidential AI Training

Author(s): Daniel Christian Lawo, Rana Abu Bakar, Abraham Cano Aguilera, Filippo Cugini, José Luis Imaña, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, JJ. Vegas Olmos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2025
Publisher: IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing

Exposing RDMA Read Reordering on x86: An Empirical Litmus Test

Author(s): Alla Lencner, Hagai Eran, JJ. Vegas Olmos, Stefan Schmid
Published in: 2026 26th IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Publisher: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Integrating Quantum Key Distribution into TLS 1.3: A Transport Layer Approach to Quantum-Resistant Communications in Optical Networks

Author(s): Carlos Rubio Garcia, Abraham Cano, J.J. Vegas Olmos, Simon Rommel, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024, Issue 41, 2024
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2024.Th3B.3

Simulation-Driven Optimization of Dual-Coupled Micro-Ring Entanglement Sources for Quantum Optical Networks

Author(s): Joseph G. Meyer, Astrid Barreiro Berrio, Alexander Grebenchukov, Eyal Mentovich, José A. Jaramillo-Villegas, JJ. Vegas Olmos, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Published in: 2026 26th IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Edge GPU Virtualization for Cost-Effective Deep Learning Inference in Retail Deployments

Author(s): Jeronimo S. Garcia, Michelangelo Guaitolini, Raffaele Montella, Sokol Kosta
Published in: Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS)
Publisher: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Protocol Buffer Deserialization DPU Offloading in the RPC Datapath

Author(s): Raphaël Frantz, Jerónimo Sánchez García, Marcin Copik, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, J. J. Vegas Olmos, Gil Bloch, Salvatore Di Girolamo
Published in: Proceedings of SC 2024-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2025
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00126

Towards encrypted zero-copy L7 load balancing

Author(s): Michał Podleś, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos, Boris Pismenny
Published in: Proceedings of the 2026 Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3822163.3827944

ActiveRDMA: SmartNIC-offloaded, Multi-Step RDMA Operations

Author(s): Jeronimo S. Garcia, Peter-Jan Gootzen, Raphael Frantz, Zach Tiffany, Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, JJ Vegas Olmos, Sokol Kosta, Flavio Vella, Salvatore Di Girolamo
Published in: Proceedings of the 55th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP ’26)
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Offloaded MPI Message Matching: An Optimistic Approach

Author(s): Jerónimo Sánchez García, Salvatore Di Girolamo, Sokol Kosta, Juan José Vegas Olmos, Rami Nudelman, Torsten Hoefler, Gil Bloch
Published in: ExaMPI: Workshop on Exascale MPI, 2024
Publisher: ACM

Implementation and Comparison of Dilithium/Kyber and Falcon/Kyber PQC Software Stack on Data Processing Units

Author(s): Daniel Lawo, Raphaël Frantz, Abraham Cano Aguilera, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, JJ. Vegas Olmos
Published in: IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter Annual Symposium 2023 Proceedings, 2023
Publisher: IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter Annual Symposium

The zero-tax data center: a use case through quantum resilient communications

Author(s): Daniel Lawo, Michal Podleś, Raphael Frantz, Abraham Cano Aguilera, Dismothenis Iliadis-Apostolidis, Jeronimo Sanchez, Sokol Kosta, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, José Luis Imaña, J.J. Vegas Olmos
Published in: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647337

First Line-rate End-to-End Post-Quantum Encrypted Optical Fiber Link Using Data Processing Units (DPUs)

Author(s): A. Cano Aguilera, R. Abu Bakar, F. Alhamed, C. Rubio Garcia, J.L. Imaña, I. Tafur Monroy, F. Cugini, J.J Vegas Olmos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024, Issue 72, 2024
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2024.M1G.4

Confidential Computing and AI in Networking Fabrics

Author(s): D. C. Lawo, I. Tafur Monroy, J. J. Vegas Olmos
Published in: 2025 25th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125026

Exploiting Cross-QP Ordering in RDMA over Optical Fabrics

Author(s): Joseph G. Meyer, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, JJ. Vegas Olmos
Published in: 2026 26th IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Publisher: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

First Demonstration of 200 Gbps Regime Line-Rate Quantum-Secure MACsec Optical Links Using Commodity Hardware Offloads

Author(s): Abraham Cano Aguilera, Carlos Rubio Garcia, Daniel C. Lawo, Idelfonso Tafur, J.L Imaña, J.J Vegas Olmos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, 2025
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2025.TU2D.2

Free Spectral Range Stability under Linear Thermal Tuning in a Dual-Coupled Microring Resonator

Author(s): Joseph Meyer, Astrid Barreiro Berrio, Alexander Grebenchukov, Jose A Jaramillo-Villegas, JJ Vegas Olmos and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering 2026 (ICSEE 2026)
Publisher: IEEE Israel Section, proceedings pending

Post-Quantum Secure Protocols for Communication Between Data Processing Units

Author(s): Abraham Cano Aguilera, Carlos Rubio García, Daniel Christian Lawo, Raphaël Frantz, José Luis Imaña, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, JJ. Vegas Olmos
Published in: IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, 2023
Publisher: IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter

Book chapters (1)

Characterizing Bluefields’ Memory Bandwidth Bottlenecks

Author(s): Michał Piotr Podleś, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos, Boris Pismenny
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Passive and Active Measurement, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-18268-5_18