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The need for quantum safe Internet is emerging, and this is a great opportunity to re-examine the legacy public key infrastructure. There is a need for a perspective on the evolvement of cryptography over the years, including the perfectly information theoretical secure schemes and the computationally secure schemes, in particular. There is also a need to examine the evolved Internet infrastructure to identify, and design efficient, and secure cryptographic schemes over the existing Internet infrastructure. A combination of overlay security, blockchain, and Merkle trees with Lamport signatures implies such an easily implementable quantum safe Internet.

Shlomi Dolev received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the Technion. He is the founder and the first department head of the Computer Science Department at Ben-Gurion University, established in 2000. Shlomi is the author of a book entitled Self-Stabilization published by MIT Press in 2000. His publications include more than three hundred publications. He served in more than a hundred program committees, chairing several including the two leading conferences in distributed computing, DISC 2006, and PODC 2014. Prof. Dolev is the head of the Frankel Center for Computer Science and holds the Ben-Gurion university Rita Altura trust chair in Computer Sciences. From 2011 to 2014, Prof. Dolev served as the Dean of the Natural Sciences Faculty at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 2010 to 2016, he has served as Head of the Inter University Computation Center of Israel. Shlomi currently serves as the steering committee head of the Computer Science discipline of the Israeli ministry of education. He is a co-founder, board member and Chief Scientific Officer of Secret Double Octopus Ltd. 2015.