FORTRESS at MAgiCS 2026
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On 10th May FORTRESS partner PQShield presented two talks at the first edition of the MAgICS workshop. The keynote entitled “Designing a Post-Quantum Root of Trust: The Hardest Migration Problem You’re Not Aware of” and a contributed talk entitled “Apples, Oranges, and Signatures: Pitfalls and Methodology in ML-DSA Benchmarking”.
The keynote discussed the following:
- PQC transition is a regulatory imperative, driven by European mandates for hybrid cryptography.
- The primary bottleneck is redesigning the Root of Trust (RoT) and secure boot, not the algorithms.
- RoT’s immutability creates structural tension with the need for cryptographic agility.
- Hybrid integration into secure boot chains requires dual key hierarchies and increases computational overhead.
- Detailed overview of the FORTRESS research project
The contributed talk covered the first publicly reproducible benchmark of MLDSA with explicit worst case execution time.
Main contributions:
- Open source test vectors for MLDSA sign operation
- Open source benchmarking framework for ARM-Cortex-M and RISC-V MCUs
- Benchmarking results of open source MLDSA implementation as well as STM32PQC and WolfSSL libraries on STM32U5A5
- Explanation of the link between ASIL FIT budget and maximum rate of MLDSA signature
The slides are available here: 2026-05-10-magics-mldsa-sign-benchmarking-1
For more information: https://magics-workshop.cs.hs-rm.de.
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