OpenSSL plays a central role in securing internet communications, making it a critical platform for integrating PQC into real-world systems. As PQC algorithms move toward standardization, support for hybrid and quantum-resistant key exchange and signatures is emerging within OpenSSL and related libraries. This session explores how PQC is being incorporated into OpenSSL, including provider-based architectures, […]
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Transitioning to Quantum-Safe cryptography
This talk will give an overview of post-quantum encryption and digital signature primitives recently standardized by NIST to which a lot of governments and organizations are currently transitioning. The session will also give a brief description of additional algorithms that are currently in the pipeline at NIST and talk about what kind of challenges one […]
How Quantum Computing Will Break Today’s Encryption & What is PQC?
Modern digital security depends on cryptographic systems like RSA and elliptic curve cryptography, which rely on the computational difficulty of problems such as integer factorization and discrete logarithms. Quantum computers fundamentally change this equation. Algorithms like Shor’s algorithm could enable sufficiently powerful quantum machines to break these widely used encryption schemes, putting sensitive data, communications, […]
Quantum 101: QKD, Entanglement, Sensors, and the Need for Standards
At the heart of quantum technology are principles that challenge classical intuition, including superposition and entanglement. Quantum key distribution (QKD) leverages these properties to enable theoretically secure communication, where any attempt at eavesdropping can be detected. Entanglement—the phenomenon in which particles remain correlated across distance—underpins not only QKD but also future quantum networks and distributed […]
NIST PQC standardization
Many of the public-key cryptographic standards we use today will be vulnerable to attacks from a large-scale quantum computer. To address this threat, NIST initiated a rigorous process in 2016 to select quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms to standardize. This talk will review this NIST PQC standardization effort, which culminated in the publication of the first set […]