Maxson Lecture Series

Date: April 19, 2017

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: Blocker 149

Speaker: Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research

Title: Maxson Lecture II: How to Keep your Secrets in a Post-Quantum World

Abstract: This talk will give an overview of the history of various hard problems in number theory which are used as the basis for cryptosystems. I will survey the evolution of attacks and discuss the upcoming NIST competition to standardize new cryptographic schemes for a post-quantum world. I will present some current proposals for post-quantum systems based on supersingular isogeny graphs of elliptic curves and lattice-based cryptosystems in cyclotomic number fields and give the ideas behind some recent attacks.