Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference 2025
2025-10-28..2025-10-30
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as the organisers put it
This premier three-day event begins with hands-on workshops, followed by two days of expert-led talks, panels, and breakout sessions. It attracts top executives, technical leaders, and practitioners from both the public and private sectors, all focused on shaping the future of cryptography.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | 01m | |
A brief highlight reel frames the conference as energetic and useful for reconnecting while noting 2500 people in attendance and lots of networking and trends… | ||
| Opening | Paul van Brouwershaven, Albert de Ruiter | 29m |
Conference opens by saying quantum breaks current encryption and urging immediate action: start with inventory and a self‑assessment maturity model that the… | ||
| Malaysia’s PQC Vision for the Region | Tuan Fabian Bigar | 08m |
Malaysia commits to a national PQC roadmap that ties to a 25% of GDP by 2030 digital target, publishes a quantum technology strategy and promises a full… | ||
| Navigating National Cyber Resilience in the Quantum Era | Megat Zuhairy Bin Megat Tajuddin | 20m |
Malaysia outlines a national PQC migration plan spanning 2025–2030 with five phases: inventory, algorithm selection, pilot/validation, implementation, and… | ||
| PQC Across Verticals: What We’ve Learned, Where We’re Headed | Paul van Brouwershaven, Jaime Gómez García, Lory Thorpe, Scott Rea, Zygmunt Lozinski | 25m |
Workshops across finance, healthcare, telco and government surface concrete takeaways: Cloudflare reports 50% of web traffic is PQC-protected and major… | ||
| PQC in Mobile Networks: Insights from the GSMA Task Force | David Turkington | 30m |
GSMA PQTN-TF (with IBM and Vodafone and 60+ organisations) reports concrete guidance: a crypto bill of materials, NIST-aligned migration timelines and a… | ||
| Quantum Safety Timelines in the Financial Sector | Jaime Gómez García | 27m |
The financial sector shifts from awareness to implementation with concrete dates and obligations: 2030–2035 NIST sunset drives migration planning, Bank of… | ||
| The internet is ready for some PQC certificates | Shane Kelly | 35m |
ML-DSA certificate chains balloon (a full ML-DSA chain hits about 14.7 KB), but using a ML-DSA-44 leaf with existing intermediates trims that to roughly 4.5… | ||
| PKI Agility and the Difference to Cryptographic Agility: Lessons from the Past and Present | Michael Osborne | 24m |
Argues that agility is organizational not just technical, showing concrete past and current failures and fixes: certificate issuance is easy but verification… | ||
| A Framework for Cryptographic Agility | Navaneeth Rameshan | 30m |
Framework defines an abstract crypto API that replaces hardcoded algorithm choices with named key identifier plus metadata, adds key lifecycle with key… | ||
| Scaling Trust: CLM Roadblocks on the Path to Post Quantum Resilience | Chris Bailey, Chris Hickman, Muralidharan Palanisamy, George Parsons | 27m |
Enterprises lack inventory and automation: Certificate Lifecycle Management is presented as the tool to reissue all certificates at scale, provide discovery… | ||
| Stateful Hash based Signatures: Practical Enhancements and Lessons learned | Volker Krummel | 30m |
Claims a practical system that preserves OTS safety while automating state handling using HSMs, with a formal UC model proof of the distributed protocol. Key… | ||
| A structured approach to the quantum safe transformation | Efstathia Katsigianni | 26m |
Argues organizations must stop at inventories and adopt a phased migration that prioritizes by business criticality, not by counting certificates; recommends a… | ||
| The PQC Landscape: Protocols and Standards | David Hook | 27m |
NIST names three PQC standards in 2024 and adds HQC as the round‑four winner in 2025, while SP800‑227 codifies how KEMs are used in protocols. A contentious… | ||
| ASEAN’s Post-Quantum Future: Securing Communications in an Era of Disruptive Change | Jonathan Jackson | 20m |
Claims Malaysia runs a 40‑vendor PQC sandbox and targets TLS 1.3 adoption now, FIPS 140‑3 already in place and certification goals (NAP / common criteria) by… | ||
| Turning Quantum Threats into Opportunities: Modernizing WebPKI with QUIC and Metrics-Driven Insights | Muralidharan Palanisamy | 27m |
WebPKI migration focuses on measurable tradeoffs: 41% of Fortune thousands using hybrid PQC and TLS 1.3 at ~90% adoption, early benchmarks show QUIC/HTTP3 cuts… | ||
| PQC in Action: From Global Standards to Secure Deployments | Nils Gerhardt | 39m |
Global standards map to working deployments: hardware security modules with a provided HSM simulator and PKCS#11 integrations run PQC algorithms (XMSS/LMS… | ||
| Real-World Readiness for PQC: Gaps, Gains, and Groundwork | Tomas Gustavsson | 24m |
Migration is already practical for many stacks: OpenSSL 3.5 out of the box on recent distros plus Apache and curl deliver hybrid TLS key exchange and MLd‑DSA… | ||
| Get Fit For The Qubit: The Dutch approach to a Quantum Secure Society | Pieter Schneider | 26m |
Netherlands establishes a 2023 roadmap and runs a support program with three lines — human factor, processes, technical — that runs 45 awareness events in a… | ||
| Working on Quantum-Safe Encrypted Emails | Tan Teik Guan | 24m |
Project implements post-quantum email encryption that interoperates with Office365 and Gmail by encrypting message bodies and attachments client-side with MLKM… | ||
| Navigating the Quantum Era – A Strategic Path to Resilience | Lim Huck Hai, Muhammad Rezal Kamel Ariffin, Pieter Schneider, William Gee, Osamu Terai | 30m |
Panel contrasts NIST baseline with three national strategies — Collaborative, Sovereign, Capacity-building — and assumes a concrete risk horizon: 2035 RSA… | ||
| HSM Advances Supporting quantum-safe PKI Automation | Olivier Couillard | 24m |
HSMs produce a signed attestation bundle in an ASN.1 evidence format that includes a manufacturing-installed manufactured trust anchor (root cert), a freshness… | ||
| PQC Integration in HSMs: From Standards to Strategy | John Buselli, Bruno Couillard, Giuseppe Damiano, Blair Canavan, Nils Gerhardt, Zsolt Rózsahegyi | 58m |
NIST’s first post‑quantum algorithms are already implemented in commercial HSM firmware and vendors run interoperability tests via the NCCE lab and PKI… | ||
| Advancing Cryptographic Transparency: CBOM Standardization in CycloneDX | Basil Hess | 24m |
CycloneDX already embeds a Cryptography BOM: CBOM became part of CycloneDX 1.6 and is now an ECMA-backed standard, and 1.7 (released last week) adds… | ||
| Transitioning to Post-Quantum Cryptography in IAM | Udara Pathum | 24m |
Urgent migration plan prioritizes TLS and PKI first, because TLS sessions and long‑lived certificates are highest risk with a likely Q‑day around 2030. Deploy… | ||
| Cryptographic Discovery and Inventory: The Hidden Foundation for Enterprise Security | Alexander Löw | 29m |
Compares three practical discovery strategies—targeted scanning / network tracing / deep system scans—and a fourth option of integrating existing cyber tools… | ||
| Implementing the Post-Quantum Survivors: A Retrospective | David Hook | 24m |
Bouncy Castle integrated the NIST Round 3 finalists and ran funded formal reviews using an Adelaide research tool and a newer bytecode analyzer called Robusta… | ||
| The ABCs (Accelerated, Better and Cheaper) to Cryptographic Resilience | Sudha Iyer | 26m |
Claims that core PQC math is settled with algorithms like Kyber and Dilithium standardized and encapsulation/signature standards available, predicts HSM… | ||
| Hybrid Quantum-Safe Cryptography for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure | Alessandro Amadori | 24m |
Project implements hybrid quantum-safe TLS and X.509 on OCPP, using a Mobility House Python OCPP stack containerized then ported to Raspberry Pi and finally to… | ||
| From Inventory to Action: Navigating the Next Phase of PQC Transition | Bruno Couillard | 26m |
Organizations already have cryptographic inventories and now must act: prioritize replacing root-of-trust systems first, start no‑regret PKI migration by… | ||
| NQSN Singapore: Quantum-Safe Network Testbed with Versatile Reference Applications | Jing Yan Haw, Hao Qin | 24m |
Nationwide star-topology testbed runs on production fiber with 1,500 km fiber and more than 75 dark fibers connecting about 12 nodes, supporting multi-vendor… | ||
| How ETSI is Preparing for PQC | Inigo Barreira | 27m |
ETSI aligns standards to EU roadmaps with concrete dates: 2026 risk assessment of all cryptographic assets, 2030 migration of critical assets, 2035 for the… | ||
| Beyond the Quantum Threat: Demonstrating Real-World Blockchain Resilience | William Gee | 24m |
Claims a live migration of an existing cryptocurrency to NIST-finalist post-quantum algorithms while keeping throughput and interoperability intact, avoiding… | ||
| Crypto Agility by Design: Securing PQC with Updatable HW/FW Co-design | Octavian Maciu | 19m |
Argues that hardware/firmware co‑design lets devices evolve: field-updatable firmware protects expensive PQC hardware, enables SCA patching, parameter tweaks… | ||
| Overcoming Challenges in Post-Quantum Cryptography Adoption | Frank Michaud | 24m |
Cisco reports practical migration experience and lists concrete obstacles: PQC public keys and signatures are much larger, hybrid stacks and HSM firmware are… | ||
| Real-World Post-Quantum Migrations: Lessons Learned and Performance Results | Michiel Marcus | 23m |
Three production pilots migrate real systems to post‑quantum algorithms: an in‑house app, a Dutch tax message‑queuing TLS gateway, and OCSP with a remote HSM… | ||
| PQC in Practice: Why This, Not That? | Sven Rajala, Sudha Iyer, Corey Bonnell, Tadahiko Ito | 55m |
Discussion compares Chimera, composite and pure PQC strategies and gives concrete tradeoffs: Chimera certificates for backward interoperability, composite keys… | ||
| Post-Quantum Firmware Signing in IoT: Practical PQC-FOTA Implementation | Tan Wai Kaey | 19m |
Implements firmware signing on ESP32 hardware using the Open Quantum Safe OQS library, generating and embedding ML‑DSA public key and signature in the firmware… | ||
| Authenticity Guaranteed: Verifying Video Integrity on Consumer Devices with Post-Quantum Signatures | Ronny Döring | 19m |
Proposes signing live or stored video on-device by splitting streams into blocks (example: 60 fps into 1s blocks), hashing 59 frames then hashing the… | ||
| Crypto-Agile PKI: A Strategic Blueprint for Post-Quantum Trust | Ganesh Mallaya | 26m |
Blueprint offers concrete steps: inventory TLS, S/MIME, code signing and device identities; test hybrid certificates that embed ML-DDSA-44 plus RSA and show… | ||
| Implementing Hybrid TLS with ML-KEM-768 for Post-Quantum Security in Mobile IIoT Deployments | Danny Setyowati | 15m |
Hybrid TLS combining ECDHE with ML-KEM-768 runs on Cisco Packet Tracer models of Mobile Manufacturing Trucks and a centralized SOC, using Quantum Shieldz… | ||
| From Noise to Clarity: Adding Intelligence to the PQC Migration | James Howe | 26m |
Presents an automated, context‑aware triage that enriches asset inventories by cross‑referencing an expert‑curated cryptographic knowledge base with existing… | ||
| Evaluating the Practical Capabilities of Contemporary Quantum Processors in Breaking AES Encryption | Somrak Petchartee | 15m |
Benchmarks of IBM, Google, Zuchongzhi 2, Microsoft, Rigetti, IonQ and Honeywell list gate counts, coherence times and connectivity and then translate those… | ||
| Crypto Agility How it’s both a Critical Component and a Complex Challenge | Samantha Mabey, Matt Rose | 27m |
Argues that preparedness requires discovery, centralized policy and automation across keys, certs and secrets, not just swapping algorithms; cites $55B quantum… | ||
| Closing Remarks - Day 2 (Plenary) | Paul van Brouwershaven, Albert de Ruiter | 06m |
Closing notes announce a networking reception in the Oak room serving drinks and snacks until 19:00, a reminder that tomorrow sessions start at 09:00 in the… | ||
| Closing Remarks - Day 2 (Breakout) | Albert de Ruiter | 05m |
Recorded at Koala Lumpur Malaysia, the closing notes say PQC transition is hard and requires vendors, updated processes, and human coordination rather than a… | ||
| Closing Remarks - Day 3 (Plenary) | Paul van Brouwershaven | 09m |
Three-day PKIC PQC event ends after three days with 600 attendees on site, funded by named sponsors and organized by a core team including Chris Bailey, Lee… | ||
| Closing Remarks - Day 3 (Breakout) | Albert de Ruiter | 07m |
Closing remarks summarize outcomes: the PKI Consortium Post-Quantum Cryptography working group started in 2022 and now runs a conference in Kuala Lumpur with… | ||
| Highlights in Kuala Lumpur → Join us in Amsterdam | 02m | |
A quick highlights reel that captures community energy and a clear community consensus that organizations must start post‑quantum work immediately; it… | ||
| Crypto-Agility: An Orchestrated Program, Not a Chaotic Fire Drill | Matt Rose, Samantha Mabey | 01m |
At the PKI Consortium Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference 2025 the claim is clear: crypto-agility is an orchestrated program, not a chaotic fire drill and it… | ||
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