TU Wien Informatics

20 Years

The future of digital signatures

  • 2014-01-16
  • Research

In this talk I explain that digital signatures are the most important cryptographic primitive for current and future IT security solutions.

Abstract

In this talk I explain that digital signatures are the most important cryptographic primitive for current and future IT security solutions. I discuss the security status of the digital signature schemes that are presently used. I show that potential quantum computer attacks threaten these schemes. I present XMSS, a practical signature scheme with provably minimal security requirements.

Biography

Johannes Buchmann is a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at TU Darmstadt and the deputy director of the Center of Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED). He received several prestigious awards, e.g. the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Karl-Heinz-Beckurts Prize, and the Tsungming Tu Award of the National Science Council of Taiwan. He is a member of several science academies, for example the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the German Academy of Technical Sciences acatech.

Note

This talk is organized by the Automation Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Aided Automation.

Speakers

  • Prof. Johannes Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt

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