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    Author(s)
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    Pengzhou He
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Villanova University
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    Yazheng Tu
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Villanova University
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    Jiafeng Xie
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Villanova University
    Abstract

    Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has drawn significant attention from various communities recently and one of the recent advances is the hardware acceleration of PQC algorithms. While Hamming Quasi-Cyclic (HQC) is one of the recently announced National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fourth-round PQC standardization candidates, very few related hardware implementation works have been reported, particularly lacking solid works on important components such as the sampler. As a fixed-weight sparse vector sampler with constant-time operation is critical to the hardware HQC accelerator, in this paper, we present a novel hardware-implemented LOw-latency and ConStant-timing fixed-weight sampler (LOCS).