The Internet is shifting to post?quantum security as current encryption weakens. This talk explores the risks &how we can protect our future
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions.
Talk Title: Can we make the Internet quantum-resistant?
The Internet is currently engaged in a huge cryptographic change as we look to deprecate quantum?vulnerable cryptography such as RSA and elliptic curves in favour of new post?quantum algorithms. Updating the cryptography of the Internet has been a slow and laborious process historically speaking, and here we have the challenge not just of the exponential growth of quantum computation but the issue of “harvest now?decrypt later” attacks.
Daniel Shiu will discuss how organisations are planning to shepherd the Internet through this process, and how much assurance we can have in some of the less mature forms of cryptography that are being proposed.
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Speaker Biography:
Daniel Shiu began his career as an academic mathematician specialising in number theory. He was then drawn into a 20-year government career working on cryptography as well as broader questions of cyber-security. His former roles include Head of Cryptographic Design and Quantum Information Processing at NCSC, Head of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, and Chief Cryptographer at Arqit Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ ARQQ). He has recently returned to academia as a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Manchester. He has publications and patents in discrete mathematics, statistics, information theory, cryptography, electrical engineering, physics, and mathematics history.
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