Implementări sigure de criptografie post-cuantică, criptanaliză și încredere digitală post-cuantica

Orizont Europa

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Aceasta este o cerere de finanțare Orizont Europa pentru proiecte de cercetare și inovare care dezvoltă implementări rezistente ale schemelor de criptografie post-cuantică, analizează rezistența matematică față de atacurile cuantice și creează protocoale noi pentru încredere digitală și identități electronice în era post-cuantica. Banile acoperă activități de cercetare precum contramăsuri împotriva atacurilor de implementare, instrumente de verificare formală și design de scheme criptografice rezistente cuantice. Se pot aplica entități juridice stabilite în statele membre ale UE și în țări asociate, cu respectarea regulilor privind controlul și securitatea strategică a Uniunii.

Grant per proiect

3.000.000 la 4.000.000 EUR

Buget total apel

19.000.000 EUR

Se deschide

02.03.2027

Tip de acțiune

HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

Eligibilitate România

Organizațiile din România pot aplica

Identificator apel

HORIZON-CL3-2027-02-CS-ECCC-03

Sursă

Portalul UE pentru finanțări (apeluri tematice)

Expected Outcome:Proposals are expected to contribute one or more of the following:Practical robust implementations of PQC schemes that can withstand implementation attacks including side-channel attacks, fault attacks and combined attacks, and design of automated tools for evaluating the security of PQC implementations. Comprehensive guidelines for implementing countermeasures against a wide range of attacks;Advances in understanding the quantum hardness of mathematical problem classes; new quantum algorithms and improvements in quantum programming and implementation; security validation methods; design of post-quantum schemes with improved security against quantum and AI-based attacks;Post-quantum schemes and protocols to support privacy-friendly applications and services, ncluding the secure and private use of electronic identities. Design of new digital signatures, key encapsulation mechanisms, and other schemes or use of existing ones to build new verification protocols. Scope:Securing PQC algorithm implementations is vital to protect against implementation attacks, such as side channel attacks, fault attacks and combinations of these, which may be amplified by deep learning. Current countermeasures incur significant overhead, and new approaches are needed to balance security and performance. Formal verification tools and methodologies can help achieve this goal and provide machine-readable evidence. Furthermore, to boost confidence in PQC systems, their security should be assessed, including the potential impact of new quantum algorithms or new optimizations of existing ones, also combined with AI.Another key research area is digital trust in the post-quantum era, which requires transforming various areas, such as secure identities, data protection, access to essential services, and applications such as backup recovery, browser extensions and others into trusted and reliable solutions, via new post-quantum schemes and advanced building blocks for privacy-enhancing protocols.Proposals should address one of the following technology areas:Development of solutions to prevent implementation attacks, balancing security, performance and cost; research in new attacks, including AI-powered ones, and/or combination of attacks, to inform secure design; creation of testing frameworks for automated security evaluations; improvement of formal verification methodologies.Quantum hardness analysis, via the study of the impact of new quantum algorithms or improvement of existing quantum algorithm implementations as well as the impact of AI-supported quantum attacks; analysis of cryptanalysis results; design of new post-quantum schemes using the information of the advances achieved/ fine-tuning of parameters sets.Design of quantum-resistant schemes and protocols supporting the field of privacy-friendly applications and services, including electronic identities, verification protocols and pseudonymous access options, protocols for attestation and anonymous attestation, for real world scenarios, via the design of new digital signature schemes and key encapsulation mechanisms, design of advanced cryptographic schemes, and usage of existing schemes in new protocols, for post-quantum digital identity and digital trust systems.

General conditions1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layoutdescribed in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.2. Eligible Countriesdescribed in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.3. Other Eligible ConditionsIn order to achieve the expected outcomes, and safeguard the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, and security, participation in this topic is limited to legal entities established in Member States and Associated Countries. In order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity, shall not participate in the action.described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusiondescribed in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholdsare described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processesare described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreementdescribed in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.6. Legal and financial set-up of the grantsEligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027), and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.Specific conditions described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]Some activities resulting from this topic may involve using classified background and/or producing of security sensitive results (EUCI and SEN). Please refer to the related provisions in section B Security, EU classified and sensitive information of the General Annexes. Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA): Application form templates, the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission SystemStandard application form (HE RIA, IA)Evaluation form templates, will be used with the necessary adaptationsStandard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) GuidanceHE Programme Guide Model Grant Agreements (MGA)Lump Sum MGA Call-specific instructions Detailed budget table (HE LS) Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"Ownership Control DeclarationInformation on Security issues (Security section)Additional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-1. General IntroductionHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-6. Civil Security for SocietyHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-15. General AnnexesHE Programme GuideHE Framework Programme 2021/695HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe ProgrammeRules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity AssessmentEU Grants AGA, Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

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