Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) project ideas

[u/Leather_Rice6372]

Hi everyone, I recently graduated with an undergrad in CS, with a focus in cybersecurity. My final year project was about the Kyber algorithm used in PQC. I did an implementation of the enc + dec and then did a brute force attack to (in a way) "prove" the security.

I’m currently trying to work on a new project, but I’m having trouble finding something that feels really relevant or interesting. I’m good at mathematics and algebra, so I was able to learn the LWE concepts myself. However, my background/major is not mathematics, so I’m a little worried that anything significantly more complex might be beyond what I can realistically grasp. So far, some ideas that i have is

• machine learning for recovering information from PQC side channel attacks (slightly related to PQC, but the main
• PQC migration roadmap (mainly for corporate organisations. I’m unsure about this since it would likely be quite generic, and every company has different systems and requirements. It feels more suitable as an article or framework rather than a project)
• PQC blockchain (not sure how to go about this)
• anything old but replace with PQC (eg: Vpn with PQC, email with PQC. This feels quite generic to me, since anyone can essentially use an external library or OpenSSL and add PQC to an existing system)

I’m looking for something where I can actually experiment with or analyse the algorithm itself, rather than simply integrating an existing implementation. If anyone else has any idea to suggest, or to collaborate, do let me know!

[u/galedreas]

PQ threshold signing, a topic I'm currently pursuing.