World-leaders in Cryptography: Craig Costello
From ASecuritySite Podcast by Professor Bill Buchanan OBE
January 15, 2026 · 1h 59m · Season 18 · Episode 1
About this episode
The episode features Craig Costello discussing his work in post-quantum cryptography and Zero Knowledge Proofs.
Craig is a Professor of Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), who has a special focus on post-quantum cryptography and Zero Knowledge Proofs. He was previously a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research at Redmond. Craig did his PhD at QUT from 2008 to 2012, and received a Fulbright Scholarship with UC Irvine from 2010 and 2011. In 2015, Craig published details of the FourQ elliptic curve, and which is one of the fastest curves around.
People in this episode
Host: Professor Bill Buchanan OBE
Guest: Craig Costello
Topics covered
- cryptography
- post-quantum cryptography
- Zero Knowledge Proofs
- computer science
- research
Keywords
- cryptography
- post-quantum
- Zero Knowledge Proofs
- FourQ
- computer science
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Queensland University of Technology, Microsoft Research, UC Irvine
Books & works: FourQ elliptic curve
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