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ACSD presents research results on PQC in ePassports three times within two weeks

Post-Quantum Cryptography in eMRTDs: Evaluating PAKE and PKI for travel documents.

Nouri Alnahawi, research assistant and PhD candidate at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, presents recent research results about the importance of PQC in electronic Machine Readable Travel Document (eMRTD) applications.

 

The first talk was held at the BSI BrainPool workshop at the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin on Nov. 26th. Today (Dec. 3rd) presents the results again at Elektor Academy Pro PQC online conference. The last talk will be at the SSR standardization conference in Passau (Dec. 6th), where the related paper was accepted as well.

 

Citation: Alnahawi, Nouri, Melissa Azouaoui, Joppe W. Bos, Gareth T. Davies, SeoJeong Moon, Christine van Vredendaal, and Alexander Wiesmaier. "Post-Quantum Cryptography in eMRTDs: Evaluating PAKE and PKI for Travel Documents." Cryptology ePrint Archive (2025).

 

Link to paper on eprint.

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