NVIDIA cuPQC
NVIDIA cuPQC is an SDK of GPU-optimized cryptographic math libraries for building both classical and next-generation high-performance cryptographic applications.
Key Features
Cryptographic Math Libraries
Provides direct access to a growing suite of GPU-optimized cryptographic math libraries, including hash functions, Merkle trees, and public-key operations. Production-ready libraries enable developers to build solutions for both traditional and next-generation cryptographic applications with maximum control and flexibility.
Unified Modular Component APIs
Delivers modular component-level APIs that provide mathematical building blocks that work consistently across diverse cryptographic domains and applications. The same patterns and components can be used across whether building classical or next-generation cryptographic systems, reducing complexity and accelerating development.
Support for Emerging Cryptographic Technologies
Powers a growing range of emerging cryptographic technologies—from post-quantum cryptography to zero-knowledge proofs and beyond. Domain-specific optimizations enable developers to efficiently build advanced cryptographic systems with specialized functions for each application.
Link-Time Optimization for Peak Performance
Applies link-time optimization to automatically select optimal GPU kernels for your specific configuration and parameters without manual tuning.
Broad GPU Platform Support
Delivers optimized performance across a broad range of NVIDIA GPU architectures—from NVIDIA Jetson™ edge devices to data center GPUs. Cryptographic solutions can be seamlessly deployed across any environment.
Exceptional Performance at Scale
Optimized for both low-latency single operations and high-throughput batch processing. Scales seamlessly from real-time responses to massive parallel workloads with GPU-accelerated performance.
Libraries
Composable GPU-accelerated cryptographic math libraries give developers direct access to high-performance primitives for building custom cryptographic solutions.
Available Libraries:
Hash Functions and Merkle Tree
Public Key Operations
Hash Functions and Merkle Tree
The cuPQC-Hash library delivers GPU-accelerated cryptographic hashing and Merkle tree operations for high-performance security applications, delivering exceptional throughput for both single and large-scale hash computations needed for applications including data integrity verification, proofs of membership, hash-based signatures, and secure authentication protocols. The library supports industry-standard algorithms alongside emerging cryptographic hash functions, providing flexibility for both traditional and next-generation security implementations.
Explore the cuPQC-Hash User GuideHash Functions
cuPQC-Hash supports GPU-accelerated implementations of SHA-2, SHA-3, SHAKE, and Poseidon 2 algorithm families, optimized for different security levels and performance requirements.
The hash library demonstrates significant performance gains, processing thousands of hash computations simultaneously, delivering throughput ranging from hundreds to thousands of GB/s, depending on the algorithm. These performance improvements make cuPQC-Hash ideal for applications requiring rapid cryptographic operations at scale.
Merkle Tree
GPU-accelerated Merkle tree construction enables rapid proof generation and verification for large datasets. Parallelizing tree building drastically speeds up data integrity and authentication applications. Merkle trees are fundamental building blocks for zero-knowledge proof systems, hash-based signature schemes, and secure data verification protocols, enabling applications such as privacy-preserving authentication, verifiable computation, and confidential data verification.
Public Key Operations
The cuPQC-PK library delivers GPU-accelerated implementations of NIST-standardized ML-KEM-512/768/1024 and ML-DSA-44/65/87 with exceptional performance across diverse workloads, from low-latency single operations to high-throughput batch processing. cuPQC-PK allows seamless deployment across any NVIDIA GPU platform, from edge devices to data center infrastructure. Ideal for TLS handshakes, VPN tunneling, code signing, certificate authorities, and encrypted communications at scale.
Explore the cuPQC-PK User Guide
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Partners Adopting NVIDIA cuPQC
“cuPQC’s safe and high-performance algorithms make transitioning to post-quantum cryptography achievable for enterprises with high-throughput security applications”
- Hart Montgomery, Linux Foundation
