ETSI was pleased to invite you for a two-day virtual technical event focusing on Quantum Safe Cryptography.
The event, organized in partnership with the Insitute for Quantum Computing (IQC), took place on 18 and 19 February 2021 from 2 – 5.30 pm utc+1.
As we increasingly rely on cyber technologies, we are ever more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The cybersecurity tools at the centre of protecting our business functions, connected devices and information assets from cyber threats rely on cryptographic tools and standards that will be broken by emerging quantum technologies. Planning and preparing is critical. A new suite of tools resilient to quantum computers must be standardized and deployed in order to maintain the availability and reliability of cyber systems and protect confidentiality and integrity.
This event was designed for members of the business, government and research communities with a stake in cryptographic standardization on a global scale. It showcased both the most recent developments from industry and government, and cutting-edge potential solutions coming out of the most recent research.
A range of presentations from experts in industry, academia and government focused on state-of-the-art quantum key distribution and post quantum public-key algorithms that will protect the world's communications and digital systems. Some of the next-generation standards development work currently in progress at ETSI and other international standards organizations were reviewed.
- 18 February was dedicated to a Quantum Safe Cryptography World Tour : a series of presentations presented the latest developments in quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum safe cryptography activities, post quantum cryptography solutions and more from Asia, North America and Europe, including China, Japan, Russia, Canada, USA, UK, Germany and Switzerland.
- 19 February provided a thorough update on various standardization initiatives worldwide including ETSI, ITU-T, IETF, NIST and others.
Additional content, demand videos of technical presentations is available on the following topics:
- Security and Migration of Quantum-Safe Cryptography
- New Applications, Performance and Integration of Quantum-Safe Cryptography into Real World Systems
The entire event content will become available online after the event.
This event complements the ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography virtual Executive Conference held in October 2020 in partnership with TelecomTV and IQC.
Agenda:
- 18 February was dedicated to a Quantum Safe Cryptography World Tour : a series of presentations will walk you through the latest developments in quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum safe cryptography activities, post quantum cryptography solutions and more from Asia, North America and Europe, including China, Japan, Russia, Canada, USA, UK, Germany and Switzerland.
- 19 February provided a thorough update on various standardization initiatives worldwide including ETSI, ITU-T, IETF, NIST and others.
Live Q&A chat was enabled during most of the presentations. - Additinal content, on demand videos of technical presentations are also available on the following topics: Security and Migration of Quantum-Safe Cryptography ; New Applications, Performance and Integration of Quantum-Safe Cryptography into Real World Systems
Full programme is available below:
- 18 February: Quantum Safe Cryptography World Tour
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Quantum Safe Cryptography World Tour :
A series of presentations walked attendees through the latest developments in quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum safe cryptography activities, post quantum cryptography solutions and more from Asia, North America and Europe, including China, Japan, Russia, Canada, USA, UK, Germany and Switzerland.Welcome Address:
- 2.00PM - 2.05PM: Welcome Address
Marion Hagemeier, ETSI Director Meetings & Event - 2.05PM - 2.15PM: Welcome Address & Introduction
Prof Michele Mosca, Programme Committee Chair, University of Waterloo, Canada
World Tour : Asia
- 2.15PM - 2.30PM: Overview of Quantum Technology in China
Prof. Qiang Zhang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China - 2.30PM - 2.45PM: Activities on Security Analysis toward Quantum-Safe Society in Japan
Prof. Noboru Kunihiro, University of Tsukuba
World Tour : Russia
- 2.45PM - 3.00PM: Quantum-safe Cryptography Research and Development Activities in Russia
Prof. Alexei Fedorov, Russian Quantum Center
Break & Networking Meeting Hub
World Tour: Europe
- 3.15PM - 3.30PM: UK Quantum Landscape
Cheryl W., NCSC - 3.30PM - 3.45PM: Quantum communication and Post-Quantum Cryptography in Germany
Dr Christoph Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light - 3.45PM 4.00PM: Quantum Safe Cryptography Initiatives in Switzerland
Michael Osborne, IBM
Break & Networking Meeting Hub
World Tour : Northern America
- 4.30PM- 4.45PM: Overview of Quantum Technology in Canada
Dr. Bridget Walshe, Canadian Center for Cyber Security - 4.45PM - 5.00PM: Preparing for the post-quantum world: a U.S. perspective
Dr. Jacob Taylor, NIST
5.00PM: End of Day 1
- 2.00PM - 2.05PM: Welcome Address
- 19 February: Standardization Initiatives World-wide
- 2.00PM5.00PM
Standardization Efforts:
The Day 2 sessions provided a thorough update on various standardization initiatives worldwide including ETSI, ITU-T, IETF, NIST and others.Welcome & Introduction:
- 2:00PM - 2.05PM: Welcome & Introduction to Day 2
Marion Hagemeier, ETSI Director Meetings & Events - 2.05PM - 2.10PM: Session Introduction
Prof Michele Mosca, Programme Committee Chair, University of Waterloo
PQC and QKD Standardization in China:
- 2.10PM - 2.25PM: Analysis of the Chinese PQC Competition
Prof Hong Xiang, Chongqing University - 2.25PM - 2.40PM: An Overview of QKD Standardization and Industrialization Efforts in China
Wei Qi , SG7 Informatization Standards Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
Quantum Safe Cryptography in ITU-T and ISO/IEC:
- 2.40PM - 3.00PM: Introduction to the Standardization Study on Quantum Networks in ITU-T from QKDN to QIN
Zhangchao Ma, Associate professor, CAS Quantum Network - 3.00PM- 3.20PM: Quantum-Safe Standards in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27
Dr LIly Chen, NIST and Dr Hongsong Shi, China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center
Break & Networking Meeting Hub
ETSI Quantum-Safe Cryptography Standards Update
- 3.30PM - 3.45PM: ETSI TC CYBER QSC Update
Dr Colin Whorlow, Head Of International Standards, NCSC - 3.45PM - 4.00PM: ETSI QKD ISG Activities
Martin Ward, Toshiba
IETF, X9 and NIST Quantum-safe Update:
- 4.00PM - 4.15PM: Post Quantum Readiness in the IETF
Christopher Wood, IETF - 4.15PM - 4.30PM: X9’s Response to Risk from Quantum Computing
Dr Steve Stevens, ASC X9 - 4.30 - 4.45PM: An Update on the NIST PQC Standardization
Dr Dustin Moody, NIST
LIVE Closing:
- 4.50PM - 5.00PM: LIVE Closing Address presented by Prof Michele Mosca
5.00PM: End of the Event
- 2:00PM - 2.05PM: Welcome & Introduction to Day 2
- On-Demand (additional content)
Theme 1: Security and migration of quantum-safe cryptography:
- PQ Migration Challenges and Solutions - Panos Kampanakis, Cisco
- The Nested Subset Differential Attack: A Practical Direct Attack Against LUOV which Forges a Signature within 210 Minutes - Jintai Ding, Tsinghua University
- A new initiative to building a quantum computer in China - Guoping Guo
- Status of quantum computing towards cryptanalysis and current challenges - Frank Wilhelm Mauch, Research Center Jülich
- Improved cryptanalysis of UOV and Rainbow - Ward Beullens, KU Leuven
- Post Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms versus Constant Timeness - Sylvain Guilley Secure-IC
- Crypto -Agility and Migration to Quantum-Safe Cryptography, Olivier Nieuwenhuyze, Global Platform
Theme 2: - New Applications, performance and Integration of Quantum-Safe Cryptography into Real World:
- Quantum-safe Cryptographic Deployments in Hyper-scale and hyper connected IoT settings - Reza Azarderakhsh,
- Securing a 5G Telecommunication Network with quantum key distribution - Jean-Sebastien Pegon, IDQuantique and Simon Bryden Fortinet
- Ciphertext Compression for Post-Quantum KEMs and Application to Group Messaging - Thomas Prest, PQ Shield
- Retrofitting Post-Quantum Cryptography in DNSSEC - Jins de Jong, TNO
- Secure Symmetric Private Information Retrieval with Quantum Cryptography - Kon Wen Yu, National University of Singapore
- Functional Encryption in the Quantum-Safe Setting: Advanced Cryptographic Capabilities and Standardization Efforts - Christoph Striecks, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- 7 PQC Libraries you need in 2021 - Sarah McCarthy, University of Waterloo / Institute of Quantum Computing
- Open QKD Network, Kaiduan Xie, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterlook Canada
- PC Chair: Michele Mosca, co-founder of IQC, University of Waterloo, Programme Committee Chair
- Jaya Baloo, CISO, Avast
- Johannes Buchmann, Prof. of Informatics and Mathematics, TU Darmstadt
- Matthew Campagna, Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services
- Lily Chen, NIST
- Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva
- Mark Pecen, Approach Infinity, Inc.
- Bart Preneel, Professor, KU Leuven
- Masahide Sasaki, Director, Quantum ICT Laboratory, NICT
- Martin Ward, Chairman of ETSI QKD, Toshiba
- Colin Whorlow, Head of International Standards, NCSC
- Hong Xiang, University of Chongqing
About the Virtual Executive Conference debating on the state of the quantum threat and quantum risk management, organized in partnership with the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and TelecomTV in October 2020.
