The second part of the event is a two-day Workshop, from Wednesday 12th afternoon to Friday 14th morning. It is aimed at both students and researchers, presenting and discussing state-of-the-art topics in post-quantum cryptography.
The Workshop includes Invited and Contributed Talks presenting original research, as well as a Poster Session.
PROGRAM
Day 1
14:00 - 14:45 Registration
14:45 - 15:00 Welcome
Marco Baldi, Carla Mascia, and Alessio Meneghetti
15:00 - 16:00 Lattice-Based
chair: Marco Baldi
Invited Talk: Lattice-based signatures
Thomas Prest
In this talk, I will present recent and future developments in lattice-based signature schemes. This will include a presentation of Falcon and Dilithium, recently standardized by NIST, as well as future research directions.
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 Isogeny-Based
chair: Federico Pintore
An attack on SIDH with arbitrary starting curve
Luciano Maino and Chloe Martindale
Collisions in Supersingular Isogeny Graphs
Wissam Ghantous, Shuichi Katsumata, Federico Pintore, and Mattia Veroni
A Post-Quantum Oblivious PRF from Isogenies
Andrea Basso
Day 2
9:30 - 10:30 Isogeny-Based
chair: Marco Calderini
Invited Talk: Past, present and future of isogeny-based digital signatures
Federico Pintore
For more than a decade, the encryption scheme SIDH had been the backbone of isogeny-based cryptography and researchers had been challenged by the problem of designing a digital signature from isogenies having, similarly to SIDH, a competitive efficiency. This picture has suddenly changed since late July 2022 due to the dramatic attack against SIDH by Castryck and Decru.
In this talk, we will provide an overview of the hurdles researchers have faced in constructing isogeny-based digital signatures, and we will briefly discuss how one of the schemes that have been proposed so far could be, despite its downsides, the base for a cryptographic renaissance of isogenies.
10:30 - 11:00 Poster Session
chair: Marco Calderini
A CONCRETE approach to torus fully homomorphic encryption
Maria Ferrara and Antonio Tortora
A Cryptographic Kernel for Post-Quantum Support in Blockchains
Riccardo Longo, Carla Mascia, Giordano Santilli, and Giovanni Tognolini
Logarithmic Linkable Ring Signature from Trilinear Forms
Andrea Gangemi and Giuseppe D'Alconzo
Quantum-Resistant Authentication Methods for Quantum Key Distribution
Paula Alonso-Blanco, Carlos Aguilar-Melchor, David Joseph, James Howe, Marc Manzano, and Nina Bindel
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Isogeny-Based
chair: Federico Pintore
Isogeny graphs with level structure
Guido Lido and Giulio Codogni
An Overview on Random Sampling of Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Marzio Mula, Nadir Murru, and Federico Pintore
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Code-Based
chair: Joachim Rosenthal
Invited Talk: An overview of NIST last round code-based encryption schemes
Jean-Christophe Deneuville
Earlier this summer, NIST finally announced the first post-quantum cryptographic standards for public-key encryption, digital signature and key exchange. Most of them (3 out of 4) rely on the hardness of lattice problems. Looking to diversify its portfolio, NIST is willing to additionally standardize post-quantum primitives relying on different assumptions at the end of its fourth round. With 3 candidates out of 4 in this last round, code-based cryptography definitely stands as a mature primitive for PQC.
In this talk, I will present each of these 3 candidates (Classic McEliece, BIKE and HQC), highlighting their similarities and fundamental differences. I will also discuss their relative efficiency and provide research directions for potential improvements.
New Time-Memory Trade-Offs for Subset Sum with Applications to Information Set Decoding
Andre Esser and Floyd Zweydinger
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 Social Excursion
Just a short walk (~15 ') away from the workshop's venue there is a deep canyon, carved by the River Fersina over thousands of years. Here, in the 1500s some of the oldest hydraulic works in the world were built, in order to protect the city from floods. Two weirs give rise to magnificent 40 m high waterfalls that flow through red rocks, thus creating spectacular light effects.
The excursion is a guided tour of the canyon accompanied by an expert guide, duration 45 ' (of which ~20' of walking). The path does not feature difficult passages, just many steps and some narrow or elevated passages. Sportive footwear and a rainproof jacket are recommended.
Day 3
9:30 - 11:00 Code-Based
chair: Edoardo Persichetti
Invited Talk: "The next two decades": a survey on side-channel attack resistance for post-quantum cryptosystems
Alessandro Barenghi
The recent choice of the US NIST for a set of cryptographic primitives to be standardized calls for solutions to their secure realization. Side channel attacks are one of the prime threats against the concrete realization of cryptographic schemes either in software or in hardware.
This talk will provide a bird's eye view on the current state of our knowledge on both the new or the recurring targets for side channel attacks in cryptographic primitives, and highlight directions to build efficient countermeasures.
A Post-Quantum Digital Signature from LDPC-QC Codes
Christian Picozzi and Giovanni Tognolini
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch