Post-quantum cryptography
Protecting private communications for a new era
Quantum computers pose new challenges for digital security. Prof. Dr. Peter Schwabe (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy) shows how post-quantum cryptography can continue to protect our data in the future.
Event has already taken place
18.
November
2025
18. November 2025 – 18. November 2025
Querenburg Branch Library Querenburger Höhe 270 44801 Bochum
Free
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Schwabe, Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Quantum computers are becoming increasingly powerful—and with them, the risk that conventional encryption methods will no longer be sufficient. But how can we keep our data secure in the future? Post–quantum cryptography is developing new encryption techniques that are designed to withstand even powerful quantum computers. But what does this mean in concrete terms for our digital security? And what can each individual do to protect themselves? The lecture provides an understandable insight into the challenges and solutions of cryptography in the quantum age.
Knowledge roundtable on security: Public, private, digital—how (un)secure are we really?
The event is part of our Knowledge Roundtable series. In collaboration with vhs Bochum and Bochum City Library, we invite experts (almost) every month to shed light on the current annual theme of the House of Knowledge from different perspectives and disciplines. In 2025, this theme is: Security! Whether pandemics, resource shortages, climate events, data theft, or geopolitical conflicts—they all influence our sense of security. That is why we are asking ourselves the following question in the 2025 Knowledge Roundtable: Public, private, digital—how (un)safe are we really?
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