Peter Gutmann
Peter Gutmann is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland working on design and analysis of cryptographic security architectures, security usability, and embedded systems security. He helped write the popular PGP encryption package, has authored a number of papers and RFC's on security and encryption including serving as the final editor of the world's longest-running security RFC, RFC 8894, and is the author of the open source cryptlib security toolkit, the book "Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification", and an upcoming book "Engineering Security".
Sessions
This talk looks at the quantocalypse, and the implications for quantum cryptanalysis using purely evidence-based empirical sources without resorting to fallacies like appeal to authority and sky-is-falling speculation. The result is summarised by the title of the talk.
People writing crypto and security software rely on standards set by standards bodies in order to create secure and interoperable implementations. But what happens when the principal standards body involved has been severely dysfunctional for years, captured by large business interests and professional meeting-goers paid to churn out more and more documents, often of dubious or even no value? This talk looks at one such standards body, and why and how it went off the rails.