Can quantum physics break cryptography's curse?

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 8, 2017, 1:30 p.m. (60 minutes).

The history of cryptography is a history of failures. Stronger ciphers replaced broken ones, to be in turn broken again. Quantum cryptography is offering a hope to end this replacement cycle, for its security premises on the laws of quantum physics and not on limitations of human ingenuity and computing. But, can our nascent quantum technology implement quantum cryptography securely? The talk introduces today's quantum cryptography techniques, then shows how to compromise their security by exploiting imperfections in engineering implementations. #DeviceSecurity #Science #NetworkSecurity

Presenters:

• Vadim Makarov
  Vadim Makarov is known for his work in quantum hacking, a study of practical security of quantum cryptographic implementations. Vadim currently leads the Quantum hacking lab http://www.vad1.com/lab/ at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He got his PhD degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and MSc from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia.

Links:

• https://program.sha2017.org/events/179.html

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