[Cryptography] Quillon Graph: A private, post-quantum electronic cash system

[Howard Chu]

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Viktor S. Kristensen via cryptography wrote:

> 3. Our AEGIS-256 block encryption relies on AES-NI hardware support. On ARM (Raspberry Pi miners — yes, we have those), we fall back to software AES, which
> is roughly 8x slower. Is there a compelling post-quantum AEAD construction that performs well on both x86 (with AES-NI) and ARM (without)? Ascon is
> interesting but we haven't benchmarked it in our pipeline yet.

The vast majority of ARM SOCs in the field now have AES instruction support.
The anemic Broadcom SOCs that Raspberry used are unique in omitting them. I
would ignore them, let them continue to use software AES if anyone is inclined
to run on them.

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