Cryptography in a post-Snowden era - Bart Preneel
Channel: secappdev.org
Date: 2016-10-10

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, we discuss 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 agencies 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 2016, Leuven, Belgium

Professor Bart Preneel of KU Leuven heads the  iMinds COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) research group. His main research areas are information security and privacy with a focus on cryptographic algorithms and protocols and efficient and secure implementations.  He has authored more than 400 scientific publications and is inventor of five patents. He teaches cryptology, network security and discete algebra at the KU Leuven and was visiting professor at the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany), the T.U.Graz (Austria), the University of Bergen (Norway), DTU (Denmark) and the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). In '93-'94 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He undertakes industrial consulting for major players in the finance, telco and hardware industry and has co-designed the Belgian eID and e-voting scheme. He is active in international standaridzation . Professor Preneel has served as Director, (1997-present), Vice President (2002-2007) and President (2008-2013) of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and is co-founder and chairman of LSEC vzw (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium). He is a fellow of the IACR, a member of the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) and of the Academia Europaea. He has testified for the European and Belgian parliament. He has been invited speaker at more than 150 conferences and schools in 40 countries. In 2014 he received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.