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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Building Cryptography in a Quantum World
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DESCRIPTION:By: Nicholas Spooner - University of Warwick\n\nAbstract\nIt i
 s by now well-established that many cryptographic protocols will be render
 ed insecure if sufficiently powerful quantum computers are built. While th
 is remains at least a few decades away\, there is another\, more immediate
 \, problem: the mathematical arguments  that we use to establish cryptogr
 aphic security rely on properties of classical information that do not hol
 d in the quantum setting. This renders the security of such schemes unclea
 r\, against even very rudimentary quantum computers. In this talk I will p
 resent techniques I have developed to address this challenge\, and discuss
  how we might rebuild the foundations of cryptography for the quantum era.
 \n\nBio\nNicholas Spooner is an assistant professor at the University of W
 arwick\, UK\, which he joined in January 2021. Before that\, he spent a ye
 ar and a half as a postdoc at Boston University. He received his PhD from 
 UC Berkeley in 2020. His interests lie within the union of cryptography\, 
 quantum computing\, and proof systems.\n\nMore information
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