Loria Colloquium: Luca De Feo

Next Loria Colloquium will take place on Tuesday, September 16th at 1:30 pm in the Amphitheater.

We will have the pleasure to welcome Luca De Feo, researcher at IBM Research Europe, with a presentation entitled “A Personal History of Isogeny-based Cryptography“.

Abstract:

Shor’s quantum algorithm makes all cryptography based on integer factorization or the discrete logarithm problem, that is all currently deployed public key cryptography, obsolete. Hence the focus of research and industry has partly shifted in recent years towards alternative foundations for public key cryptography that do not fall victim to known quantum algorithms.

Among these proposed foundations, isogenies of elliptic curves are one of the most recent. Indeed the first proposals appeared in the early 2000s, but the field only really took off less than 10 years ago. Despite being short, the history of isogeny-based cryptography is full of drama, plot twists, and even passes by LORIA.

I have had the chance to witness the development of the field almost from its inception, and I believe its history can teach us something on research in general. In this talk I will recount the progress in isogeny-based cryptography from the early ideas to the modern constructions currently being considered for standardization, always keeping a personal perspective.

Luca De Feo is a researcher at IBM Research Europe working on quantum-safe cryptography. He graduated from École Polytechnique in 2010 with a thesis on isogeny computations; He has been computing them ever since.

People from outside the Loria must register by sending an email to Marie Baron – marie.baron (at) loria.fr before September 14th.