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
Nikita Snetkov is a junior researcher at Cybernetica AS and industrial PhD student at TalTech. His research interests are post-quantum cryptography, threshold cryptography and internet voting.