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This paper reflects on the state of the art in cryptology and information security. It considers the main achievements and shortcomings of research and identifies the major challenges for the future. It explores which research approaches have a high potential to evolve from academic ideas to practical solutions. The paper concludes by discussing how the deployment of more secure and reliable IT systems requires a complete re-engineering including new architectures; it also sketches the broader societal context of such a redesign.
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The same applies of course to our financial infrastructure and to the problems of energy supply and global warming.
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This work was supported in part by the Research Council KU Leuven (GOA TENSE/11/007), by the Flemish Government (FWO WET G.0213.11N and IWT MobCOM), and by the European Commission through the ICT programme under contract FP7-ICT-2013-10-SEP-210076296 PRACTICE.
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Preneel, B. (2014). The Future of Information Security Research: Cryptology and Beyond. In: Jonker, W., Petković, M. (eds) Secure Data Management. SDM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8425. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06811-4_5
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