QSNS2024 Workshop: Paving the path towards Quantum-Secure Networks
The QSNS2024 workshop aimed to address the most pressing cybersecurity challenges of the quantum era from an engineering perspective, with the aim of contributing to global efforts towards an agile, post-quantum or post-quantum/traditional hybrid and standards-based transition to PQC of the digital infrastructures we all use today.
In this regard, QSNS2024 took place on June 26, 2024, in Paris, France, in conjunction with the 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. The innovative event was the first joint initiative of the QUBIP and PQ-REACT EU projects, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe framework programme on the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) of protocols, networks, and systems which recently joined their forces and established the SPQR (Secure Post-Quantum eRa) cluster.
QSNS2024 highlights
The day started with Antonio Lioy (Politecnico di Torino) and Andrea Vesco (LINKS Foundation) introducing the workshop, its objectives and programme. It continued featuring a keynote speech by Bas Westerbaan from Cloudflare, who discussed the state of the Post-Quantum Internet. ‘’Encryption is only half the story. Post-quantum certificates are much more challenging to deploy’’ he quoted.
Throughout the day, several scientific papers were presented, covering a wide range of topics relevant to the evolution of the quantum era as follows:
- Resilience of Lattice-Based Cryptosystems to Quantum Attacks (T.Koeppl, R.Zander, N.Tcholtchev)
- Analysis and Contributions to an Open Source Kyber Library in Rust (F.Medina, M.C.Molteni, A.Di Scala, L.Nava)
- Shaping a Quantum-Resistant Future: Strategies for Post-Quantum PKI (G.Donghia, D.G.Berbecaru, A.Lioy)
- Integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography into CoAP and MQTT-SN Protocols (J.Blanco, V.Lorenzo, F.Almenares, D.Diaz-Sanchez, C.Campo, C.Garcia-Rubio)
- Entangled States and Bell’s Inequality: A New Approach to Quantum Distance Bounding (K.Bogner, D.Singelee, A.Abidin)
The event concluded with a wrap-up session, summarizing all the insightful findings discussed while also set the stage for future research and development in Post Quantum Cryptography.
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