2025-10-09 –, Belvedere I/ Security, Compliance & the Law
Migration to post-quantum cryptography is a significant task fo IT community, however, for some stakeholders and developers the upcoming schemes seem cumbersome. We present an educational board game which shows players the process of developing and standardizing quantum-safe cryptographic schemes.
It is hard to motivate and illustrate the need of migration to post-quantum cryptography to some stakeholders and developers. We propose an approach that slightly differs from the conventional ways - an educational board game. Throughout the game, players get to experience different challenges of research and development process and can see how some thing and decisions can impact the bigger picture. In our board game, each player is given control over R&D company. Player must distribute their funds on paper publishing, development of standards and promotion of their post-quantum schemes. Our game introduces players to such concepts as cryptographic standards, schemes, products and attacks.
We will present live demo of our board game that is accompanied with explanations of the concepts used in the game to better illustrate the necessity of migration process. We hope to attract more people to the topic of post-quantum cryptography through the active learning and demystify complex concepts.
Jelizaveta Vakarjuk is a junior researcher in Cybernetica and industrial PhD student at Tallinn University of Technology. Her research focuses on post-quantum cryptography, privacy-preserving cryptography, and security of voting systems. Mainly she studies post-quantum digital signatures, but also focuses on the aspects of migration to post-quantum cryptography. Job position: Junior researcher Affiliation: Cybernetica AS and TalTech
Petr Muzikant is a Cyber Security Engineer at the Information Security Research Institute of Cybernetica AS in Estonia. His role encompasses two key areas within Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). First, he bridges the gap between research and development by communicating with academic researchers, learning from them, and transforming their theoretical protocols into code to prototype a working application. Second, he focuses on aspects of PQ engineering, implementation, and migration by developing PQ versions of Estonia's e-Government systems. He addresses emerging engineering challenges and shares his findings both internally and externally. He firmly believes that we all should begin evaluating our PQ migration capabilities now, and he is here to assist with the actual implementation.