Post Snowden Cryptography or Who Holds Your Keys? - Bart Preneel
Channel: secappdev.org
Date: 2014-05-16

Post-Snowden cryptography, by Bart Preneel.

This lecture presents an overview of the Snowden revelations and the impact on our understanding of the security of our networks and systems. In particular, it discusses the known ways in which sophisticated attackers can bypass or undermine cryptography. We also speculate on how three-letter agencies could be breaking most encryption on the Internet. We relate this to the latest developments in cryptanalysis and discuss which cryptographic algorithms and implementations to select to stay protected.

Learning objectives

+ Understand how sophisticated opponents can undermine cryptographic protection
+ Understand how to maximize your chances to resist sophisticated opponents using cryptographic techniques

This lecture was delivered by Bart Preneel at SecAppDev 2014 in Leuven, Belgium.

Professor Bart Preneel of KU Leuven heads the COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) research group. His main research area is information security with a focus on cryptographic algorithms and protocols as well as their applications to both computer and network security, and mobile communications. 

He teaches cryptology, network security and coding theory at the KU Leuven and was visiting professor at the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany), the T.U.Graz (Austria), the University of Bergen (Norway), and the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). In '93-'94 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught intensive courses around the world. 

He undertakes industrial consulting (Mastercard International, S.W.I.F.T., Proton World International,...), and participates in the work of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27/WG2. 

Professor Preneel is Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and co-founder and chairman of LSEC vzw (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium).