QSNS 2024

The development of quantum computers opens exciting new frontiers. At the same time, a cryptographically relevant quantum computer has the potential to break the foundations of current digital security. The global research and industry community is working on two complementary directions, (i) the definition of PQC algorithms, coordinated by NIST, and (ii) the transition of protocols, networks and systems to PQC.
The QSNS2024 workshop will address the most pressing cybersecurity challenges of the quantum era from an engineering perspective, with the aim of contributing to global efforts towards an agile, post-quantum or post-quantum/traditional hybrid and standards-based transition to PQC of the digital infrastructures we all use today.

QSNS2024 encourages multidisciplinary perspectives and welcomes papers on topics that include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design and/or analysis of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms
• Evolution of standard network and communication protocols to achieve PQ security
• Cryptographic agility in systems and protocols, to easily support different kinds of PQC algorithms
• Design and implementation of hybrid cryptographic schemas (post-quantum / traditional)
• Design and implementation of hybrid QKD / PQC solutions
• System and application support for PQC
• Hardware and/or software support for PQC

The QSNS2024 workshop organisers invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere.

Submitted papers must be no longer than six (6) pages, including references, and must follow the IEEE proceedings guidelines. IEEE provides Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be published as part of the IEEE ISCC 2024 Workshop Proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library. The IEEE ISCC Proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the IEEE ISCC Workshops publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas.

A “Best Paper Award” certificate will be given to the author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the chairs based on the scientific significance, originality, and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as also assessed by the evaluations of the members of the Technical Program Committee (TPC).

Submissions should be uploaded to EDAS (click here) by the submission deadline. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the TPC. One author per accepted paper must attend the workshop event and register on the IEEE ISCC 2024 website.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Prof. Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr. Andrea Vesco, LINKS Foundation, Italy

Technical Program Committee

Davide Margaria, LINKS Foundation, Italy
Alessandro Pino, LINKS Foundation, Italy
Guido Bertoni, Security Pattern, Italy
Maria Chiara Molteni, Security Pattern, Italy
Davide Bellizia, Telsy, Italy
Piedad Brox, CSIC, Spain
Eros Camacho, CSIC, Spain
Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain
Antonio Pastor, Telefonica, Spain
Javier Faba, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Nicola Tuveri, Tampere University, Finland
David Domingo Martín, INDRA, Spain
Nikolay Vassilev Tcholtchev, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Marcin Niemiec, AGH University, Poland
Piotr Cholda, AGH University, Poland
Akis Kourtis, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece

Publicity Chair

Davide Margaria, LINKS Foundation, Italy

Wednesday, June 26

9:45 workshop introduction
A.Lioy (Politecnico di Torino)
A.Vesco (LINKS Foundation)

10-11 keynote speech by Bas Westerbaan (Cloudflare)
title: State of the Post-Quantum Internet
Download here the slide of the Keynote
abstract: We are at a pivotal moment in cybersecurity. Browsers are rolling out post-quantum encryption by default to counter the store-now-decrypt-later threat: at the time of writing about 2% of all TLS 1.3 connections handled by Cloudflare are secured by post-quantum cryptography. What once was the subject of futuristic tech demos, will soon become the baseline expectation for security. Encryption is only half the story. Post-quantum certificates are much more challenging to deploy. In this talk, we will take measure of the current state, and the challenges that lay ahead for the public Web and its PKI.

11:30-12:45 scientific papers

11:30-11:45
T.Koeppl, R.Zander, N.Tcholtchev
Resilience of Lattice-Based Cryptosystems to Quantum Attacks [DOI]

11:45-12:00
F.Medina, M.C.Molteni, A.Di Scala, L.Nava
Analysis and Contributions to an Open Source Kyber Library in Rust [DOI]

12:00-12:15
G.Donghia, D.G.Berbecaru, A.Lioy
Shaping a Quantum-Resistant Future: Strategies for Post-Quantum PKI [DOI]

12:15-12:30
J.Blanco, V.Lorenzo, F.Almenares, D.Diaz-Sanchez, C.Campo, C.Garcia-Rubio
Integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography into CoAP and MQTT-SN Protocols [DOI]

12:30-12:45
K.Bogner, D.Singelee, A.Abidin
Entangled States and Bell’s Inequality: A New Approach to Quantum Distance Bounding [DOI]

12:45 workshop wrap-up and conclusions