Real-World Post-Quantum Cryptography: Introducing the OpenQuantumSafe Software Project

Presented at Black Hat Europe 2016, Nov. 4, 2016, 2 p.m. (60 minutes).

Almost all of the widely-used cryptography on the internet will be broken or substantially compromised by large-scale quantum computers. It is also true that anything that ever has been - or will be - sent over a network using vulnerable cryptographic algorithms can be subject to storage and later decryption once a quantum computer becomes available. As a consequence, a global movement toward developing quantum-resistant cryptography has begun. In this presentation, I demonstrate the world's first open-source library offering a full range of secure implementations of quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms, as well as key benchmarks, challenges to integration, and forthcoming protocol upgrades and software contributions resulting from our work.


Presenters:

  • Jennifer Fernick - Researcher, Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, University of Waterloo
    Jennifer Fernick is a cryptography & security researcher at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo.

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