How far will cryptology take us?
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Cryptology at the heart of Jacques Stern's digital technology © Cnrs Editions
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
How far will cryptology take us?
This science of secrecy omnipresent in our digital lives continues to become more complex to ensure the security of our exchanges, but how far?
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Let's break the codes and develop others thanks to cryptology: the science of secrecy, the science of secret codes, omnipresent in our digital lives.
Every day we exchange billions of encrypted messages on the internet (with our mobile phones and our smart cards), deemed inviolable, but are they really?
Can we trust our security keys?
Should we change the codes?
With the rise of crypto currencies and the blockchain, and especially the announced arrival of quantum computers which could be a game-changer for cryptographers (who develop the codes) and for cryptanalysts (who seek to break them). .
With
Jacques Stern
, cryptologist, professor emeritus at the ENS and the Collège de France, for his book
La cryptologie au cœur du numérique
published by CNRS Éditions
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