[🏫 In-Person] Encryption in a Post Quantum World with Mark Thompson

This event will be a single talk on Encryption in a Post Quantum World with Mark Thompson
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is TBA.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 Encryption in a Post Quantum World
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 Encryption in a Post Quantum World
Quantum computing is here, it is time to protect our code. Todays standards have served the world for decades. Not any more. It’s time to discuss Post Quantum Encryption and how we as developers can use it, without panic, hype, or heavy maths.

This talk is a friendly, practical introduction to quantum-proof encryption, aimed at C# and .NET developers. We’ll focus on how encryption is used in real applications, not the maths behind it, and everything is explained in terms of practical use.

We’ll start by looking at why encryption needs to evolve, including how Shor’s Algorithm fundamentally breaks widely used asymmetric encryption standards like RSA and ECC, rendering them unsafe in a quantum world. We’ll then revisit symmetric and asymmetric encryption, clarifying what remains safe and what needs to change.

From there, we’ll get hands-on and build simple, real C# examples to encrypt data, sign it, and verify it code you can take away and use straight away.

This is a relaxed, code-first session designed to make modern encryption feel approachable, useful, and achievable. You don’t need to be a mathematician or a Crypto expert. There will be no slides of equations.