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We’ve heard for years about the looming quantum threat: how a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could break the cryptography we use today. Many things happened during the last year forcing us to pay close attention to the situation: NIST selected their first post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms for standardization, some government agencies have set rapid transition goals, industry groups started to discuss PQC integration. Will you be ready for the post-quantum transition?
In this talk, I’ll cover the emerging PQC algorithms (paying close attention to the lattice-based Kyber), give an intuitive overview of how they work, and explain how they integrate into TLS, SSH, X.509, etc. I’ll present open-source tools that can be used to prepare for the PQC migrations, to create a migration plan and to start experimenting with PQC.
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.