ST has introduced hardware cryptographic accelerators and associated software libraries for general-purpose and secure MCUs.

Standardising Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) requires leveraging new techniques based on mathematical problems that are difficult for quantum computers to solve.

 

The PQC standards use the Keccak algorithm — a  hash algorithm invented by ST.

ST’s offerings are available for STM32 developers in the X-CUBE-PQC software library, and for Stellar automotive microcontrollers that contain the SHA-3 hardware accelerator.

There are also new software libraries and hardware IPs for secure microcontrollers, targeting Common Criteria and FIPS 140-3 and ML-KEM, ML-DSA and XMSS/LMS PQC algorithms.