Real-World Cryptography 2021

Notes I took while virtually attending the 2021 Real World Cryptography Symposium.

Introduction

The Real World Crypto Symposium, part of IACR, was held online in 2021 due to the pandemic. It had been due to take place in Amsterdam, Holland - that will now be the venue for RWC2022.

Normally the conference is held over three days. This year, it was spread across four shorter days, enabling attendees from a wider range of timezones to attend remotely.

As usual the programme is a mix of academic, industrial/commercial, government and public policy. Quite a few talks are fairly accessible for someone who’s taken Dan Boneh’s Crypto 101 course coursera. But others are harder to follow.

This year the pandemic inspired a new session with talks on Contact Tracing. The other 12 sessions were largely the same as in previous years' conferences.

Program

The conference was broken down into themed sessions as follows. RWC

Monday, 2021-Jan-11.

Opening Remarks video

  1. Secure Channels
  2. Group Messaging
  3. Multi-Party Computation

Tuesday, 2021-Jan-12.

  1. Invited Talk / Signatures
  2. Humans, Policy, and Crypto
  3. Invited Talk / Post-Quantum Cryptography
  4. Lightning Talks

Wednesday, 2021-Jan-13.

  1. Invited Talks / Contact Tracing
  2. Hardware
  3. Formal Analysis

Thursday, 2021-Jan-14.

  1. Invited Talk / Cryptocurrency
  2. Crypto for the Cloud
  3. Invited Talk / Anonymity

Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 4: Signatures

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 5: Humans, Policy, and Crypto

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 6: Invited Talk

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 6: Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 7: Lightning Talks

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 1: Secure Channels

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 2: Group Messaging

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Real World Crypto 2021 - Session 3: Multi-Party Computation

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