SAN FRANCISCO, April
12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- This week PQCrypto 2018
co-located its event with NIST's first PQC Standardization
Conference in Florida, creating a
forum for researchers and developers to present results and
exchange ideas on cryptography in an era where the emergence of
large-scale quantum computers is a reality. "Large-scale quantum
computers could arrive sooner than anticipated, it could take many
organizations years to perform the transition. Today's encrypted
data can be captured and stored by an adversary, until a quantum
computer is available to gain access to it. Quantum-safe solutions
are needed today." Dr. Vladimir
Soukharev, Chief Post-Quantum Researcher & Cryptographer
at InfoSec Global.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
a standards-setting agency of the Department of Commerce
(USA), has issued a request for
public-key post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. InfoSec Global
(ISG), together with partners from academia and industry, has
answered that call with two Post-Quantum Crypto NIST
submissions.
"Microsoft Research was pleased to collaborate with InfoSec
Global, Professor Jao, and our other industry and academic partners
on the submission of SIKE to the US NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography
Standardization effort. We understand the importance of
implementing enterprise safeguards now in preparation for the
future and believe SIKE is a secure and efficient post-quantum
cryptographic algorithm and a strong candidate for
standardization." Dr. Brian
LaMacchia, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
SIKE is one of the two candidates submitted and presented by Dr.
David Jao, University of Waterloo, at the NIST workshop this
week. Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation (SIKE) is an elliptic
curve isogeny-based key agreement scheme. Isogenies can also be
referred to as Post-Quantum Elliptic Curve Cryptography. "The
underlying hard problem for isogeny-based cryptography is: given
two isogenous supersingular elliptic curves, find an
isogeny between them. Currently no quantum algorithm is known for
solving this problem in less than exponential time. The main reason
why this problem seems intractable for quantum computers is that
the endomorphism ring for the supersingular elliptic curve is
non-commutative, which shields the problem against attacks." Dr.
David Jao, University of Waterloo
The second submission, called SPHINCS+, was presented this week
by Dr. Andreas Hülsing, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL).
SPHINCS+ is a stateless hash-based digital signature scheme and an
improved version of SPHINCS. "SPHINCS+ is probably the submission
with the most reliable security estimates. This is due to the fact
that security is only based on hardness assumptions about
cryptographic hash functions. At the same time, SPHINCS+ achieves
reasonable sizes and speeds allowing for different trade-offs to
suit everyone's needs." Dr. Andreas Hülsing, Eindhoven University
of Technology (NL)
With SIKE and SPHINCS+, ISG is able to offer a solution for the
quantum computer threat today and enable its customers to move
towards a quantum-safe world. Regardless of the standards that are
chosen by NIST, ISG's platform will support migration to those
chosen and enterprises can begin preparing today with ISG's crypto
agility.
About InfoSec Global Inc.
InfoSec Global provides
sustainable data protection for a digital world. The company
delivers a next generation enterprise grade solution that provides
the real-time life-cycle management of the cryptography and digital
identities for critical systems. The AgileSec Platform manages the
entire digital and cryptographic life-cycle from the discovery of
threats and vulnerabilities to the updates and fixes of
cryptography, keys and certificates. ISG helps governments and
enterprises achieve trust through compliance to cryptographic
regulations, worldwide. The ISG leadership team has deep
professional and academic expertise in the security and
cryptography market. The founders and board members are the
original inventors of key cryptographic technologies, protocols and
standards such as SSL and AES.
To learn more, visit http://www.infosecglobal.com
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