Post-quantum cryptography, a new era
- LecturerProf. Jintai Ding (University of Cincinnati)
Host: Bo-Yin Yang - Time2023-10-03 (Tue.) 10:30 ~ 12:00
- LocationAuditorium 106 at IIS new Building
Abstract
Public key cryptosystems (PKC) are the security foundation of modern communication systems, in particular, the Internet. However Shor's algorithm shows that the existing PKC like Diffie-Hellmannkey exchange, RSA and ECC can be broken by a quantum computer. To prepare for the coming age of quantum computing, we need to build new public key cryptosystems that could resist quantum computer attacks. In this lecture, we will give an introduction to post-quantum cryptography and its recent developments, in particular, the NIST standardization process and itsimpact. Then we will present a practical and provably secure (authenticated) key exchange protocol based on the learning with errors problems, which is conceptually simple and has strong provable security properties. This new construction was established in 2011-2012. We will explain that all the existing LWE-based key exchanges are variants of this fundamental design. In addition, we will explain how to use the signal function invented for KE for authentication schemes.