Christian Paquin Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research
Christian is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Research’s Security and Cryptography team. For the last 20 years, Christian has been living at the edge of academic research and industry, with a focus on privacy-preserving identity technologies (notably, U-Prove). Christian joined the COVID response effort, and helped with the design of the SMART Health Card framework; he contributed to the specification, and co-implemented the developer tools to validate SHC implementations. Post-quantum cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs otherwise keep him busy. Based in DC, Christian is always happy to visit his native Montreal.
Discussion: Cryptography Block
This is a Q&A session. Moderators will take audience questions both remotely and on-site via sli.do.
Hosted panel discussion and Q&A.
Talk: Privacy-friendly QR codes for identity
Talks will be streamed on YouTube and Twitch for free.
Outline of the presentation:
- SMART Health Card (SHC)
- Overview of the SHC framework, and of its overseeing organization VCI
- Security analysis of SHC, including: key management, cryptographic signatures, revocation of issuers and SHCs, and trust establishment (trusted issuer directory and auditing)
- Claims QR
- Presentation of the Claim QR framework for generic attributes
- Hash-based mechanism for selective disclosure of attributes
- Overview of the open-source specification and reference implementation
- Demo (issuance and validation of generic attributes)
- Q&A