PQNet
Post-Quantum Networks Workshop.
Location (part 2): Special event at Real World Crypto 2022 (RWC).
Date (part 2): 19th and 20th of April after RWC2022.
PQNet
Post-Quantum Networks Workshop.
Location (part 2): Special event at Real World Crypto 2022 (RWC).
Date (part 2): 19th and 20th of April after RWC2022.
The past years have witnessed the advances of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as part of the on-going NIST competition in order to provide protection against quantum adversaries. But, one of the most challenging aspects that we are currently facing is how to integrate these algorithms into the networks, protocols and systems that we use today.
The Post-Quantum and Networks workshop serves to bring together the industry, academia and standardization bodies to think about the task of integrating post-quantum algorithms to networks and systems we use today. It aims to think around it from an efficiency, usability, deployability, and privacy perspective. It aims to highlight the importance and challenges of deploying these algorithms into real-world networks, as well as of standardizing these complex cryptographic protocols.
The Post-Quantum and Networks workshop will ran into two parts:
Organizers: Sofía Celi & Nick Sullivan.
The event will be entirely virtual.
This isn’t a place for people to be exclusionary. We’ll use the SNAPL Friendly Environment Policy, and follow all the guidelines and policies of the Isogeny-based cryptography school.
The schedule will follow this format (all times are displayed in UTC):
Days | Time | Event |
---|---|---|
Daily | 1pm - 2.30pm | Invited Talk + discussion (in this format) + q&a |
Daily | 2.30pm - | Socializing time |
For each invited talk, there will be material shared prior/afterwards which participants can study (videos, blogs or papers).
The socializing times can be used as a time to study together, come up with new ideas or propose paths to explore.
Program All times are displayed in UTC:
Day | Time | Event | Speaker(s) |
---|---|---|---|
Monday | 1pm - 2.30pm | Introduction to the networking protocols: the case of TLS | Sofía Celi |
Tuesday | 1pm - 2.30pm | Integrating post-quantum cryptography into protocols: the case of DNSSEC | Roland van Rijswijk-Deij |
Wednesday | 1pm - 2.30pm | Integrating post-quantum cryptography into protocols: the case of TLS | Douglas Stebila |
Thursday | 1pm - 2.30pm | Integrating post-quantum cryptography into protocols: the case of Wireguard and Signal | Thomas Prest and Kai-Chun |
Friday | 1pm - 2.30pm | Challenges of isogenies-based cryptography over networking protocols | Sofía Celi and Bas Westerbaan |
The event will be entirely virtual.
Events
19th of April (starting at 4pm CEST):
20th of April (starting at 3pm CEST):
How to Register
Registration is free; but you must be aware of the SNAPL Friendly Environment Policy.
We require that every participant represent themselves by the name that they use for their professional work (this can be a pseudonym that they generally use for their professional work). No participant can impersonate another person.
On the Internet, signing up is cheap. Showing up is hard. Check your calendar to make sure you're free, and block off the dates: commit to participating before you sign up. Do not sign up until you've blocked out the dates in your calendar.
Nevertheless, we understand that things can change. If you have signed up but won't be participating, let us know.
Registration form
Note that you have to provide a valid email address at registration, as subsequent communications regarding the event will be sent to that address.
There are two ways of registering:
You can send encrypted emails for registration and subsequent communications by using PGP. The public key of cherenkov (at) riseup (dot) net can be found here. The fingerprint is: 3D0B D6E9 4D51 FBC2 CEF7 F004 C835 5EB9 42BF A1D6. If you send encrypted emails, first please either send your public key or upload it in a server where it can be publicly found.
We will be using Zoom and Slack.