37C3 Lightning Talk: Current status on PQC standardization

I gave a Lightning Talk (5 minute short talks on various topics) at 37C3 (Chaos Communication Congress by the Chaos Computer Club) in Hamburg on the 2023-12-28.

The talk gives an up-to-day overview on the ongoing standardization processes of quantum-safe/post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as NIST/FIPS will release the final standards as results of NIST's PQC competition in 2024 (see the corresponding Wikipedia page on NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization for an overview of the topic. Other standards are still a work in progress (e.g. NIST's Standardization of Additional Digital Signature Schemes) but are also referenced in the talk.

Furthermore it gives an overview on work in progress drafts of IETF RFCs wrt. PQC, as those deal with the specific usage and implementation of PQC for existing protocols and use cases such as TLS, SSH, PKI, etc. Some already existing real-world and production grade use cases of PQC and general advice in the context of post-quantum cryptography are also mentioned.

All mentioned standards and information in the slides can be clicked on to get to the relevant website of e.g. the particular standard for further information.

The talk aims at being informative specifically wrt. usage/implemetations of PQC, so there's no explanation on topics such as why PQC is needed, how the underlying mathematical theory and procedures work, etc.

A video of the talk is located at media.ccc.de - Current status on post-quantum cryptography and ongoing standardization and implementations/protocols, the slides can be found on my website (PDF file).