[Cryptography] cryptography Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6

[Viktor Dukhovni]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:45:11PM +0530, Sanjeet Suhag wrote:

> Since almost everything else has already been done in standard
> cryptography.

We're not done with non-quantum crypto yet.

    - There is significant recent progress in performant and
      side-channel resistant elliptic curves by D.J. Bernstein et. al.

    - There is significant recent progress on RC4 cryptanalysis.

    - The sponge construction in Keccac is a novel new building block.

    - We're starting to move away from CBC mode to AEAD modes.

    - Poly1305 is an interesting new MAC.

There is also active research on "post-quantum" cryptography, that
is asymmetric cryptography that resists both classical and quantum
algorithms.

I would ignore QKD, which is interesting Physics, but otherwise
largely marketing hype.

> I believe that a confluence of Quantum Computing and
> its affect on the current cryptographic standards would be useful.

If/when practical and scalable QC is available, then we lose most
of the currently deployed asymmetric algorithms for signature and
key exchange.  Thus the interest in post-quantum crypto.

However, classical crypto is by no means all done yet.

-- 
	Viktor.