Cryptographic Security Summit 2025

Jun 16, 2025

Organizer

Prof. Chak Chung Ray Cheung
Associate Provost (DL), Office of the Provost and Deputy President
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Professor, Affiliate, Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Email: racheung@cityu.edu.hk

Date & Time

June 16, 2025 (Monday) at 12:00 - 15:00 HKT

Featured Presentations

Prof. Ron Steinfeld (Monash University)
Title: Post-Quantum Homomorphic Encryption and Verifiable Private Computation

Prof. Steinfeld is an Associate Professor in the Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity at Monash University. His research introduced structured lattice problems, particularly the Polynomial-LWE problem, and established quantum security foundations for NTRU-based encryption and signature algorithms. His work forms the basis for NIST Post Quantum Cryptography standard algorithms including Kyber, Dilithium, and Falcon.

Prof. John Yuen (Monash University)
Title: Remote attestation/PSI/CBDC Wallet

Dr. John Tsz Hon Yuen is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity at Monash University. He is a member of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Expert Group of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, with expertise in cryptography, security, privacy, blockchain and FinTech.

Prof. Amin Sakzad (Monash University)
Title: Efficient and Secure Post-Quantum Cryptography Implementation

Dr. Amin Sakzad is an Associate Professor at Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology. His research focuses on applications of lattices in cryptography and wireless communications, including Algebraic Number Theory, lattice-based cryptography, and searchable encryption.

Dr. Muhammed Esgin (Monash University)
Title: Post-Quantum Privacy-Enhancing Protocol design

Dr. Esgin is a Lecturer at Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology. His research focuses on cybersecurity at the intersection of Mathematics and Computer Science, particularly quantum-resistant cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, and blockchain protocols.

Dr. Shujie Cui (Monash University)
Title: Searchable Encryption and Trusted Execution Environments / Side-Channel

Dr. Cui is a Lecturer in the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity at Monash University. Her research interests include applied cryptography, information security in cloud computing and distributed systems, trusted execution environments, and privacy-preserving machine learning.

Xinyu Zhang (Monash University)
Title: Post-Quantum Cryptography from Legendre and Power Residue PRFs

Xinyu Zhang is currently a PhD student at Monash University. Her research area focuses on symmetric key primitives based post-quantum cryptographic protocol design.

Dr. Shiyu Shen (City University of Hong Kong)
Title: Cryptographic Engineering in Post-Quantum World

Dr. Shiyu Shen is a Postdoc in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2024 from Fudan University. Her research interests include Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Post-Quantum Cryptography, High-Performance Computing, and Hardware Design.

Abstract

As quantum computing rapidly approaches practical reality, ensuring cryptographic security in a post-quantum world has become critically important. This talk addresses key challenges and cutting-edge solutions in cryptographic engineering tailored for post-quantum cryptography, exploring architecture-aware arithmetic optimization techniques, RISC-V cryptographic extensions, sophisticated hardware designs, and high-throughput GPU solutions.

About This Collaboration

This summit represents a significant collaboration between Monash University’s Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity and City University of Hong Kong’s Department of Electrical Engineering. The event brings together leading researchers to discuss the latest advances in post-quantum cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, and secure system implementations. The summit addresses critical challenges in preparing cryptographic systems for the quantum computing era, covering both theoretical foundations and practical implementations across diverse computational platforms.