Crypto in a Post-Quantum World & Protection against threats in the real world

Hello all,

I would like to welcome you to the 25th Meetup of KW Intersections on September 13th at 7 pm at Boltmade (http://www.boltmade.com). The talk of the month will be by Yves Younan and is titled Protection against threats in the real world. For the paper of the month, Steven Taschuk will present a paper about Post-quantum cryptography.

Pizza will be kindly provided by Sortable (http://sortable.com/careers-at-sortable/).

Protection against threats in the real world by Y Younan

Many mitigations exist in today’s operating systems and compilers. These mitigations make it harder for an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities. Standard widely deployed mitigations include ASLR, DEP, Stack Cookies, etc. However, many of these mitigations require support from the application in some way. A binary can also opt-out of DEP or make vulnerabilities easier to exploit, depending on how it is compiled and linked. In this talk, we discuss the results of a large study of windows programs that exist on the Internet. For each of those programs, all their executable binaries were examined to check which mitigations and other security features they support. We will discuss the preliminary results of examining Windows programs in the Sourceforge repository

Introduction to post-quantum cryptography (http://content.schweitzer-online.de/static/catalog_manager/live/media_files/representation/zd_std_orig__zd_schw_orig/017/918/307/9783540887010_content_pdf_1.pdf) by DJ Bernstein presented by Steven Taschuk

Imagine that it’s fifteen years from now and someone announces the successful construction of a large quantum computer. The New York Times runs a frontpage article reporting that all of the public-key algorithms used to protect the Internet have been broken. Users panic. What exactly will happen to cryptography?