Quantum-Safe Security

NO MEETING ON JULY 4TH DUE TO US HOLIDAY, THE NEXT CALL WILL BE JULY 18.

Recording

Recording Unavailable Until Further Notice

Meeting Minutes

• CSA News
  • Upcoming events: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/events
  • Recent documents and report releases: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/artifacts/ 
  • Open peer reviews:  https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/#_initiative
• Current Activities
  • Article: Mass Adoption of Quantum Computers - in review-, draft available
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FqsYuWm1WfYNRcY59SZ_0nUe9v1LAJE1ck_E-GfRdB8/edit
  • Cory working on addressing the comments on the paper and ready for a final once over by the afternoon. Should be ready to publish after
  • Article: Quantum and Financial Industry Standards - Bruno needs access to review, draft available
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vAouSyrWpwD5gTwC834Y14NL6OIiISeC/edit
  • Aiming to publish after the next call, July 18th
  • Article: Quantum and Forensics - final draft available, no new updates
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b3VoP7nR1p_26T7kmbAPp5wLSXW6pNlx/edit?rtpof=true
  • Paper: Quantum Control Matrix - new leaders
  • No content yet, new volunteers are taking over the initiative, Cory and Pius.  John has also volunteered to join.
  • Paper: Blockchain and Quantum v2 - Bruno needs to review
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCpFhavkRpowl2MSQ2dPolOva10naXQF/edit?rtpof=true
• Proposed activities
  • Articles: Kyber, PQC Forum (brief summary) - John is interested, looking additional support authors
  • Paper: QKD and PQC - on hold
  • Presentations: At SECtember in Sept  (in person) or CSA Research Summit (virtual) in Oct
• News
  • A new long-distance QKD proposal from Terra Quantum...[2301.10610] Forty Thousand Kilometers Under Quantum Protection (arxiv.org)  also in Nature Sci .Rep. and [2306.04599] Experimental demonstration of scalable quantum key distribution over a thousand kilometers (arxiv.org) 

• • NOTE: Discussion of this proposal has been removed from the meeting records to allow for potential future discussions of the proposal with the authors. 

• The TII Mc Elliece Challenge: https://www.herox.com/TIIMcElieceChallenges.
• "The purpose of the TII McEliece Challenges is to enhance our understanding of the hardness of the problems that underpin the security of modern versions of the McEliece Cryptosystem, such as Classic McEliece. During the course of 1 year you can try to break McEliece keys and McEliece ciphertexts and win some money!
• Have been past challenges, but may want to monitor

• Upcoming Events
  
  • IQT Canada, Montreal ; June 20-22 ; https://iqtevent.com/canada
  • Black Hat, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,  August 5-10 https://blackhat.coM
  • Def Con 31, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,  August 10-13 https://defcon.org/
  • SECtember (CSA Security event) ; Sept. 18-22 Overview - SECtember 2023
  • Intl Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC), September 20-22, https://icmconference.org/
  • Grace Hopper Celebration, Orlando, September 26-29 https://ghc.anitab.org/
  • InfoSec World, Orlando, September 25-27 https://www.infosecworldusa.com/
  • Maybe of interest: Regular NIST PQC seminars:
    https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/workshops-and-timeline/pqc-seminars.
• Cancelling upcoming calls
  • July 4th - Next call will be July 18
  • Pause for summer? - No calls in August due to summer holidays

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Hillary Baron
Sr Technical Director
CSA
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