Luke Beckwith

Contact

3100 Engineering Building
George Mason University
ECE Department, CERG
4400 University Drive, MS 1G5
Fairfax, VA 22030
 E-Mail: lbeckwit'at'gmu.edu
Curriculum Vitae: LinkedIn

Research Interest

  • Post Quantum Cryptography
  • Lattice Based Cryptography
  • Homomorphic Encryption
  • Hardware/Software Codesign
  • Embedded Systems
  • Reconfigurable Computing

Advisor: Dr. Kris Gaj

Biography

Luke Beckwith received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2019. He continued his education at Virginia Tech, pursuing an MSc under the supervision of Dr. William Diehl, and received his degree in Fall 2020. Since January 2021, he has been a part-time PhD student at GMU and a part-time employee at PQSecure, a cryptographic engineering startup.

Publications

  • E. Ferrufino, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, and J.-P. Kaps, FOBOS 3: An open-source platform for side-channel analysis and benchmarking, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, volume 15, number 10, 2025 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • L. Beckwith, H. Zhou, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Power side-channel key recovery attack on a hardware implementation of BIKE, Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), Kobe, Japan, Dec., 2024 [Bibtex]
  • K. Mohajerani, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, E. Ferrufino, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, SCA evaluation and benchmarking of finalists in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process, May, 2023, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2023/484 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • K. Mohajerani, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Lightweight champions of the world: Side-channel resistant open hardware for finalists in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Jul., 2024 [Bibtex]
  • L. Beckwith, D.T. Nguyen, and K. Gaj, Hardware accelerators for digital signature algorithms Dilithium and FALCON, IEEE Design and Test, volume 41, number 5, pages 27–35, Oct., 2024 [Bibtex]
  • E. Ferrufino, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, and J.-P. Kaps, FOBOS 3: An open-source platform for side-channel analysis and benchmarking, Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES), Association for Computing Machinery, Copenhagen, Denmark, pages 5–14, Nov, 2023 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • L. Beckwith, R. Wallace, K. Mohajerani, and K. Gaj, A high-performance hardware implementation of the LESS digital signature scheme, 14th International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2023, College Park, MD, LNCS, volume 14154, Springer, pages 57-90, August, 2023 [Bibtex]
  • L. Beckwith, D.T. Nguyen, and K. Gaj, High-performance hardware implementation of CRYSTALS-Dilithium, 20th International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, FPT 2021, IEEE, 12, 2021 [Bibtex]
  • L. Beckwith and W. Diehl, New directions for NewHope: Improving performance of post-quantum cryptography through algorithm-level pipelining, International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, FPT 2020, IEEE, pages 120–128, Dec., 2020 [Bibtex]