From: "Cliff Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 21:10:19 -0400
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Subject: Cryptographic Agility and Resilience 
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In May 2016 I was fortunate to be able to attend most of a symposium 
sponsored by the Computer and Telecommunications Science Board (CSTB) 
of the National Academies that dealt with society's ability to change 
out cryptographic algorithms in the networked infrastructure (think 
public key cryptography (PKI)  here, which underpins all kinds of 
fundamental technologies like SSL/TLS). This eye-opening and disturbing 
(at least for me) discussion was largely driven by the potential 
(though controversial and complicated)  not-too-distant emergence of 
quantum computing, which might well put much of the current PKI at 
risk, and the prospects for dealing with it. If this is not on your 
radar screen for the 5-20 year future (and the big time range 
uncertainty is part of the problem) it should be, in my opinion. 

The report from this symposium has is now available. There's a free PDF 
download. It's at

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24636/cryptographic-agility-and-interoperability-proceedings-of-a-workshop

Background on the workshop is at

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/CYBER/DEPS_171459


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI