The Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography
| Event The Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography | |
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| Name | The Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography |
| Contact | Jay9 |
| Duration | 2025-11-14 20:00 - 2025-11-14 22:00 |
| Information | A talk about The Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography by Prof. Dr. Peter Schwabe
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Future large universal quantum computers come with many promises and have the potential to enable breakthroughs in multiple areas of science and technology. However, these advances come with one very notable collateral damage, namely that quantum computers will also be able to break cryptographic schemes whose security relies on the hardness of integer factorization or discrete logarithms. Such cryptographic schemes are currently a critical part of the security foundation of our digital society. In my talk I will give an overview of ongoing efforts to mitigate this threat by migrating our cryptographic infrastructure to schemes that are believed to resist attacks even by large universal quantum computers. Multiple such so-called "post-quantum" cryptographic schemes have recently been standardized and we are already using them every day, typically without even noticing that we do. Yet, there are still major efforts required to migrate *all* of our infrastructure to this next generation of cryptography.
About Prof. Dr. Peter Schwabe
Peter Schwabe is scientific director at MPI-SP and professor at Radboud University. He graduated from RWTH Aachen University in computer science in 2006 and received a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2011. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Science and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation of Academia Sinica, Taiwan and at National Taiwan University. His research area is cryptographic engineering; in particular the security and performance of cryptographic software. He published more than 80 articles in journals and at international conferences presenting, for example, fast software for a variety of cryptographic primitives including AES, hash functions, elliptic-curve cryptography, and cryptographic pairings. He has also published articles on fast cryptanalysis, in particular attacks on the discrete-logarithm problem. In recent years he has focused in particular on post-quantum cryptography. He co-authored the "NewHope" and "NTRU-HRSS" lattice-based key-encapsulation schemes which were used in post-quantum TLS experiments by Google and he is co-submitter of seven proposals to the NIST post-quantum crypto project, all of which made it to the second round, five of which made it to the third round, and 3 of which were selected after round 3 for standardization. In 2021, he co-founded the Formosa-Crypto project, an effort by multiple research groups to build (post-quantum) cryptographic software with formal proofs of functional correctness and security.
Date: 14 November 2025, 20:00
Location: Hackerspace Nijmegen, Villanovastraat 4, Nijmegen
Entrance: free
Language: English
