World-leaders in Cryptography: Daniele Micciancio
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Daniele is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego and, in 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the IACR. His main focus is on the foundations of lattice-based cryptography and its advanced applications, including fully homomorphic encryption. Overall, he has published many classic papers that relate to lattice methods, including working with Chris Peikert on "Trapdoors for lattices", and with Oded Regev on the "Worst-case to average-case reductions based on Gaussian methods". Daniele has also contributed greatly to...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Gene Tsudik
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Gene is a Distinguished and ICS Alumni Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he has been since 2000. His research covers areas of security, privacy, and cryptography. From 1991 to 1996, he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and then at the Information Science Institute until 2000. He is a Fulbright scholar and a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and IFIP. From 2009 to 2015, he was the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Over the years, Gene has received a number of awards,...
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World-leaders in Technology: Vint Cerf
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Vint is seen as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, and along with Robert Kahn, was award the ACM AM Turing Prize - the Nobel Prize of Computer Science - in 2004. Vint contributed to many areas in the creation of the Internet, including writing many RFCs (Requests For Comment) drafts, and in 1974 published the classic paper of "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. This paper basically defined the IP and TCP protocols that would eventually be used to build the Internet. Along with the A.M. Turing Award, he...
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Panel Discussion: The Quantum clock countdown to Y2Q
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Panel Discussion: The Quantum clock countdown to Y2Q , CEO Scottish Centre of Excellence in Digital Trust and DLT , Founder and CEO ACubed.IT , Founder CyberSeQ J , Senior Researcher Cybernetica Estonia
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Post Quantum Cryptography and Other Crypto with Daniel J Bernstein
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A chat in the International Conference on PQC and AI. Daniel is a world-renowned computer scientist, one of the most influential figures in modern cryptography and a pioneer in post-quantum security.https://luma.com/9lxiupu6https://luma.com/9lxiupu6https://luma.com/9lxiupu6
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Cryptography Experts: Professor Martin Albrecht
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Martin Albrecht is a Professor of Cryptography at King's College London and a Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ. He works broadly across the field of cryptography. His work focuses on the analysis of deployed or soon-to-be deployed cryptographic solutions and he has responsibly disclosed severe vulnerabilities to various public and private stakeholders such as OpenSSH, Amazon EC2, Apple, Telegram, Jitsi and Matrix. He further works on designing advanced cryptographic solutions. He is well known for analysing the security of lattice-based cryptography against classical and quantum...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Gilles Brassard
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Gilles has been a full Professor at the Université de Montréal for more than 45 years. He laid the foundations of quantum cryptography at a time when no one could have predicted that the quantum information revolution would usher in a multi-billion-dollar industry, much less that the United Nations would proclaim 2025 to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. He is also among the inventors of quantum teleportation, which is one of the most fundamental pillars of the theory of quantum information. In addition to this, his research focuses on areas of classical...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Christof Paar
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Christof is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany. He is also, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a Fellow of the IACR and IEEE. His research includes areas of light-weight cryptography, efficient cryptographic implementations, cryptographic Trojans and physical layer security. Christof is one of the co-creators of the PRESENT light-weight cipher and of the PRINCE block cipher, In 2003, he founded Escrypt GmbH together with Willi Mann-heims, and which was one of the first companies to focus on industrial...
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Blockchain in Scotland
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Victor S Miller
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Victor is a Senior Research Scientist at Nexus Laboratories. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1975, and was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1973 to 1978. Victor has since worked for the IBM Research Center, The Institute for Defence Analyses in Princeton, Meta Platforms and SRI International. For his research, Victor has focused on areas of computational number theory, data compression and cryptography. Along with Neal Koblitz, he was the co-creator of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, the inventor of Miller's algorithm and...
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In research, we are all just building on the shoulders of true giants, and there are few larger giants than Leslie Lamport — the creator of LaTeX.
For me, every time I open up a LaTeX document, I think of the work he did on creating LaTeX, and which makes my research work so much more productive. If I was still stuck with Microsoft Office for research, I would spend half of my time in that horrible equation editor, or in trying to integrate the references into the required format, or in formatting Header 1 and Header 2 to have a six-point spacing underneath. So, for me, the contest between LaTeX and Microsoft Word is a knock-out in the first round.
And one of the great things about Leslie is that his work is strongly academic — and which provides foundations for others to build on. For this, he did a great deal on the ordering of task synchronisation, in state theory, cryptography signatures, and fault tolerance.
LaTeX
I really can say enough about how much LaTeX — created in 1984 — helps my work. I am writing a few books just now, and it allows me to lay out the books in the way that I want to deliver the content. There’s no need for a further mark-up, as I work on the output that the reader will see. But the true genius of LaTeX is the way that teams can work on a paper, and where there can be async to GitHub and where version control is then embedded.
Clocks
Many in the research community think that the quality measure of a paper is the impact factor of the journal that it is submitted to, or in the amount of maths that it contains. But, in the end, it is the impact of the paper, and how it changes thinking. For Leslie, in 1978, his paper on clocks changed our scientific world and is one of the most cited papers in computer science.
Byzantine Generals Problem
In 1981, Leslie B Lamport defined the Byzantine Generals Problem. And in a research world where you can have 100s of references in a paper, Leslie only used four (and which would probably not be accepted these days for having so few references). Within this paper, the generals of a Byzantine army have to agree to their battle plan, in the face of adversaries passing in order information. In the end, we aim to create a way of passing messages where if at least two out of three of the generals are honest, we will end up with the correct battle plan.
The Lamport Signature
Sometime soon, we perhaps need to wean ourselves of our existing public key methods and look to techniques that are more challenging for quantum computers. With the implementation of Shor’s algorithm [here] on quantum computers, we will see our RSA and Elliptic Curve methods being replaced by methods which are quantum robust. One method is the Lamport signature method and which was created by Leslie B. Lamport in 1979.