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The Buzz of Real-World Crypto: PQC Goes Into Production

Real World Crypto 2023: And “Crypto” means Cryptography!

The problem with academic conferences is often that the papers published can be difficult to read for those who do not have a maths background. This is especially the case for cryptography-related conferences. But, cryptography has had a long track record of “rump sessions”, and which involved practical cracking of cryptography. For this, Len Adleman outlined — in the past — that some of these sessions were often rowdy events:

Figure 1: Revealing a crack on the Merkle Knapsack method at a Rump session

And, so Real World Crypto is one of the best conferences in breaking down barriers and aims to provide ground-breaking practical research.

At each conference, there is often a great buzz on evolving fields. For Real-World Crypto 2023, there were quite a few presentations on PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography).

Google has been working on PQC for a TLS method (Application Layer Transport Security — ALTS) to communicate within its own infrastructure. As they started before NIST announced the PQC winners, they selected NTRU-HRSS. Unfortunately, NIST selected CRYSTALS-Kyber for key exchange/public key…