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The Quantum Risk & Future Post-Quantum Standards

This talk will describe the risk of quantum computing to cryptography, in a way suitable to an audience without quantum physics nor cryptography background.  We will present the mitigations available today thanks to research in the field of post-quantum cryptography, and we'll review the ongoing standardization efforts from the US agency NIST, and what it impies for security applications in the coming years.


What is the work that you're doing today?

My specialty is applied cryptography and more generally, information security. I'm running a startup company called Teserakt, which specializes in security for IoT systems. We do a new type of protocol to provide end-to-end encryption in the IoT context to protect data from the data producer to the data consumer.

What are your goals for this talk?

To clarify a lot of misunderstandings and myths around quantum computing. A lot of things that you hear in the news or that you're hearing in vendor pitches are not accurate. I try to make this topic approachable, to give a clear message and also actionable advice, in order to help organizations manage the risks related to quantum computing.

Can you give us a preview of the advice?

Today the main risk is that quantum computers could break all the public-key cryptography deployed today, such as RSA and elliptic curve signatures, which are for example used in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. To address the issue today, we can use a type of cryptographic algorithms called post-quantum cryptography. The NIST agency is currently working on standardizing such algorithms, and a number of software tools are available today to integrate post-quantum cryptography in applications.


Speaker

Jean-Philippe Aumasson

Author of "Serious Cryptography", Designer of Hash Functions BLAKE3 and BLAKE2

Jean-Philippe (JP) Aumasson is the founder and managing director of Teserakt, a Swiss-based company specialised in IoT security and offering an end-to-end encryption solution. He is an expert in cryptography and the author of the reference book Serious Cryptography (No Starch Press, 2017). He...

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