Quantum-Safe Security

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• Updates on latest activities
• Crypto Newsletter: Published on LinkedIn for September https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7237560492142047233/
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• Cloud Key Management collab - no action needed until review
• Update on current documents
• Published: Security controls - https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/quantum-safe-security-governance-with-the-cloud-controls-matrix
• Plan to update and release version 1.1 to update in light of NIST release
• May want to add additional content or a spin off article regarding vulnerabilities
• In progress: AI and Quantum
• 1 of the larger comments isn't visible
• Shortening some sections and finalizing the review for a more complete version for next call
• Authors - add in any final comments
• In Progress: Update charter to clarify goals
• NEWLY PROPOSED:
• QCaaS integration with AI and traditional not-quantum code, to speedup the computation in a hybrid environment 
• PQC reference architecture - William Genovese, John Jiang
• A case for using hash based solutions
• Paused: Blockchain and Quantum update
• NEWS!
• NIST FIPS 203, 204, 205 Finalized! Press Release: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards
• New Quantum Satellite from China - discussion for next call
• [2408.10994v1] Microsatellite-based real-time quantum key distribution (arxiv.org)
• Payload: 23 kg; satellite < 100 kg, 200 mm mirror
• Optical ground station: < 100 kg, fully portable! 280 mm mirror
• Improved Factorisation Algorithm - disucssion for next call
• From Shor: for n bits, need O(n2) qubits
• To Regev in 2023: fewer qubits, smaller circuit depth, faster calculations, but larger memory
• And Ragavan & Vaikuntanathan in 2024: best of both, see 1501.pdf (iacr.org)
• Point to check: asymptotic results only... What about real-world values (RSA 2024...) ?
  
  Link to the chat transcript:
  https://cloudsecurityalliance.zoom.us/rec/sdownload/4wYptB_8msP13nf-1zLPBAEC_y7SdM2FRkl8MzeZnc8DasmVFtr0i5tn6PPSH2toa54SY3GF8IdZ5CTr.3uEsApK_4fb820zj
  Passcode: e@8qNPS0

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Hillary Baron
Sr Technical Director
CSA
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