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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 Research
Christian is a security specialist in the Microsoft Research Cryptography team with a mission to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world systems. With 25 years of experience, Christian has been involved in many industry-wide initiatives such as the development of privacy enhancing identity technologies (such as anonymous credentials), the ongoing post-quantum cryptographic migration, and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) to fight online disinformation. Christian shares some of his work results on his blog: https://christianpaquin.github.io