Nick Sullivan, and Adam Langley join Melanie and Mark to provide a pragmatic view on post-quantum cryptography and what it means to research security for the potential of quantum computing. Post-quantum cryptography is about developing algorithms that are resistant to quantum computers in conjunction with “classical” computers. It’s about looking at the full picture of potential threats and planning on how to address them using a diversity of types of mathematics in the research. Adam and Nick help clarify the different terminology and techniques that are applied in the research and give a practical understanding of what to expect from a security perspective.

Nick Sullivan

Nick Sullivan runs the cryptography team at Cloudflare, an internet security and performance company.

Adam Langley

Adam Langley is a Principal Software Engineer at Google, responsible for a variety of cryptography-related efforts.

Cool things of the week

• Google IO site & IO Extended Events site
• App Engine Turns 10 blog
• Introducing Stackdriver APM & Stackdriver Profiler blog & article
• Smart Parking story:
  • Cloud-native architecture with serverless microservices blog part1
  • Implementing an event-driven architecture on serverless blog part2
  • What we learned doing serverless blog part3
  • Episode 102 Smart Parking and IoT Core with Brian Granatir podcast

Interview

• Quantum Computing simple wiki & wiki
• Post-Quantum Cryptography wiki & site
• Chrome post-quantum algorithm experiment 2016 blog & wired article & results
• Imperial Violet by Adam Langley blog
  • Post-quantum confidentiality for TLS blog
• Cloudflare Blog by Nick Sullivan blog
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) site & round 1 submissions
• PQ Crypto Conference site

Additional References / Resources:

• Quantum Cryptography wiki & article
• Quantum Supremacy wiki and arXiv paper
• Lattice-based Cryptography wiki & resources
• RSA algorithm wiki
• Symmetric and Asymmetric (Public key) Encription explanation
• Confidentiality and Integrity explanation
• Schrodinger’s cat wiki
• Shor’s algorithm wiki
• Quest for the Quantum Computer book
• Meet the meQuanics - Quantum Computing Discussions site & podcast

Question of the week

How to stream realtime coding?

• Lessons for my First Year Live Coding on Twitch - Suz Hinton blog
• Get a good microphone
• Open Broadcast Software
• Twitch TV
• Mark’s Twitch Site

Where can you find us next?

• San Francisco