Keynote speaker 1: Global harmonization of cryptographic standards

Cryptography is a necessary technology used to provide Internet security and privacy. The global nature of the Internet means that any cryptographic protocols to be used must be agreed globally. Standardisation allows this to be achieved and also provides an important link between theoretically well founded cryptographic schemes and practical cryptographic solutions. Different countries will have their own preferred protocols and so this is not just a matter of picking a single cryptographic protocol for each given task. There needs to be a process of harmonisation by which an agreed standard is defined. In this talk, we discuss how this is achieved by using examples from the ISO organisation and the Trusted Computing Group.