Applied Cryptography & the Post-Quantum Migration
A live, instructor-led masterclass that takes your engineers and leaders from the quantum threat to a working migration, and through the advanced cryptography that runs the modern internet. Online or on-site.
Taught by cryptographers
The masterclass is led by working cryptographers, including a postdoctoral researcher at a prestigious university. Their research spans the design and analysis of cryptographic protocols: zero-knowledge proofs and proof systems, privacy-preserving AI, digital identity, and end-to-end encryption for secure messaging and cloud storage. You learn the post-quantum migration from people who work at the research frontier and can connect it to what teams actually ship.
What backs the teaching
Research-grade cryptography
- PhD in cryptography
- Postdoctoral researcher at a prestigious university
- Zero-knowledge proofs, secure messaging, digital identity
- Teaches live, with a hands-on posture
Who it is for
Built for the people who ship
- Security engineers and architects
- CISOs and security leaders
- Developers of TLS, messaging, identity, and blockchain systems
- Leaders who need to separate the real threat from the hype
- University and postgraduate cohorts
What you leave with
Outcomes, not just slides
- A working mental model of modern and post-quantum cryptography
- A migration playbook: cryptographic inventory, hybrid deployment, and crypto-agility
- Fluency in the NIST, BSI, and ANSSI guidance shaping the migration
- An optional, independently verifiable completion certificate
Two tracks, six modules
The full curriculum is public. Modules mix and match into the three formats below, from a half-day briefing to a three-day intensive.
Track A: Post-Quantum Cryptography & Migration
From the fundamentals to a concrete migration, grounded in the NIST standards and European guidance.
Module 1Foundations of Applied Cryptography
- Symmetric and public-key cryptography
- Integrity, authentication, and confidentiality
- Key exchange and Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs)
- The NIST post-quantum standards: ML-KEM and ML-DSA
- Post-quantum TLS: the hybrid handshake
- Side-channel attacks, constant-time code, and open-source libraries
Module 2Demystifying the Quantum Threat
- What quantum computers can and cannot do: Shor, Grover, and their limits
- Post-Quantum Cryptography vs Quantum Cryptography vs Quantum Key Distribution
- NIST security levels and adjusting key sizes
- The real cost of migration: key and signature size blow-ups
- Harvest-now, decrypt-later, and what it means for signatures
- Which problems stay hard for a quantum computer
Module 3Understanding Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Lattice-based cryptography and its hardness assumptions
- Ring and module lattices, and why they help
- Building encryption and ML-KEM
- Lattice signatures: Hash-and-Sign vs Rejection Sampling (Falcon vs ML-DSA)
- Code-based cryptography: McEliece and HQC
- The road ahead with NIST, and BSI/ANSSI migration guidelines
Track B: Applied Advanced Cryptography
How the cryptography that runs the modern internet is built, attacked, and made post-quantum ready.
Module 4Real-world protocols
- Deploying advanced cryptography at scale
- Forward security and post-compromise security
- Case study: messaging and the Signal protocol
- Post-quantum Signal and the PQ handshake
- Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
- Data in transit vs data at rest, and cloud storage
Module 5Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications
- Interactive and zero-knowledge proofs
- Non-interactive proofs and the Fiat-Shamir transform
- How zero-knowledge proofs are built
- Blockchain applications: scalability and confidential transactions
- Digital identity applications
- Toward verifiable AI and machine learning
Module 6Identity and Credentials
- Introducing digital identity
- Security goals: unforgeability, anonymity, unlinkability
- Device binding and hardware attestation
- The EUDI Wallet: Europe's self-sovereign identity effort
- Anonymous credentials
- Privacy Pass
Scale it to your team
One curriculum, three depths. Pricing scales with the format and the size of the cohort.
Half-day executive briefing
Modules 1–2
Separate the real quantum threat from the hype and align leadership on what to do next.
Full technical program
Modules 1–4
The end-to-end path from the fundamentals through the post-quantum migration and real-world protocols.
Three-day intensive
All six modules, with labs
The complete masterclass across both tracks, with hands-on labs.
Prove it, if you want to
Attendees can take an optional exam to earn a Masterclass Completion Certificate, cryptographically timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain so anyone can verify it. It is a course-completion certificate, not an accredited qualification, and it is separate from our self-paced Certified Post-Quantum Practitioner credential.
Just need to certify a whole team?
This live masterclass is our premium tier. To train and certify a whole workforce at scale, our self-paced online courses cover the fundamentals and are free during beta.
Questions before you book
Who teaches the masterclass?
Working cryptographers, including a postdoctoral researcher at a prestigious university with a PhD in cryptography, whose research spans zero-knowledge proofs, digital identity, and end-to-end encryption. The masterclass is taught in a personal capacity.
Is it delivered online or in person?
Either. The masterclass runs live online or on-site at your offices, and scales from a half-day briefing to a three-day intensive.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on the format and the size of the cohort. Tell us what you need and we will send a quote.
Do participants get a certificate?
Optionally. Attendees can take an exam to earn a Masterclass Completion Certificate, cryptographically timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain so it can be verified independently. It is a course-completion certificate, not an accredited qualification, and it is separate from our self-paced Certified Post-Quantum Practitioner credential.
What background do attendees need?
The executive briefing assumes no cryptography background. The technical program and the intensive are aimed at engineers, architects, and developers who build or operate systems that rely on cryptography.
Bring the masterclass to your team
Tell us your format and cohort size, and we will send a quote and available dates.