The round table on «Post-quantum cryptography: what industrial strategy?» brought together more than 120 participants on 7 November 2024 at the École Militaire (Paris 7e).
One of the aims of the Cyber and Digital Sovereignty Chair - IHEDN is to set up working groups on topical issues of interest to the French cyber community.
In October 2023, it initiated work on the’the impact of quantum technology on cybersecurity and, more specifically, on the post-quantum cryptography, a new generation of quantum-computer-proof cryptography.
In 2017, the’American Standards Institute (NIST) has decided to renewing cryptographic standards by post-quantum cryptography.
The finalisation of this process, which took place in the summer of 2024 with the official publication of the new post-quantum standards, marks the start of the mass deployment of post-quantum cryptography in our infrastructures.
This subject has gone from being an essentially academic issue to a an economic and strategic challenge.
Against this backdrop, the working group focused on two closely related issues:
- How to make our critical infrastructures resilient to quantum before technological advances overtake us?
- What industrial strategy should be adopted to achieve this? ?
This working group is made up of fifteen experts from a variety of backgrounds, most of whom are listeners to the Digital Sovereignty and Cybersecurity major (SNC) of the National session of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale IHEDN.
This round table presented the recommendations of the group and has helped exchanges with the audience.
Speakers
Fabienne Ealet
Ministry of Defence
IHEDN auditor (2023-2024 national session, digital sovereignty and cybersecurity major)
Jean-François Funke
Member of the Paris Bar
IHEDN auditor (2022-2023 national session, digital sovereignty and cybersecurity major)
Gérald Kénanian
Head of Innovation
MEDEF
Arthur Villard
Research engineer with expertise in cryptography
EDF (R&D)
Animation
Ludovic Perret
Professor at EPITA
IHEDN auditor (2022-2023 national session, digital sovereignty and cybersecurity major)
