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Benchmarking NIST-Standardised ML-KEM and ML-DSA on ARM Cortex-M0+: Latency, Rejection-Sampling Variance, and Memory on the RP2040

Rojin Chhetri · Sijan Dhakal · Asmita Gautam

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Abstract

Study overview.

This study benchmarks all six NIST-standardised ML-KEM and ML-DSA parameter sets on the RP2040 at 125 MHz. It reports latency, memory behaviour, rejection-sampling variance, cross-device reproducibility, and a timing side channel that reveals signing attempt counts but not their content.

Subjects

Research classification.

  • Cryptography and Security
  • Hardware Architecture
  • Performance

Persistent records

Primary recordarXiv:2603.19340Persistent identifier10.48550/arXiv.2603.19340Open repositoryCode and benchmark data