As the world prepares for the advent of quantum computers, the security community must also prepare to defend against it: most of the cryptography in used today succumb to quantum attacks. I'll present recent progress in the development of quantum-resistant cryptography, it’s (2nd round of) standardization by NIST, it’s implementation in our Open Quantum Safe project, and results from our recent experiments integrating and benchmarking it in TLS, SSH, and VPN. Last year’s work allows developers to start experimenting with post-quantum cryptography to protect encrypted data that could be recorded today and decrypted with a quantum computer within a decade; I'll conclude with guidance to help such efforts.
Christian Paquin Principal Research Software Engineer, Microsoft
I’m cryptography and security engineer at Microsoft Research where I aim to bring new research innovations closer to reality. My work focuses lately on privacy-preserving identity, post-quantum cryptography, and content origin and authentication (especially surrounding the work of the C2PA in which I’m a member of the technical working group). Prior to joining Microsoft I was a crypto developer at Zero Knowledge Systems developing a TOR-precursor mixnet and the Chief Security Engineer at Credentica.