Insights with Strategic Focus & Importance

In addition to the Webinars & workshops by Q-PrEP, asking for your participation, insights on strategic aspects can be found in our whitepapers on this page. Rather than technical approaches & details, these documents take a “bird’s-eye view” on the challenge posed to cryptography by quantum computing and PQC migrations.

Whitepaper #1: Q-Day, worse than Y2K (draft version)

We did not want to let you wait any longer and therefore provide you with a (draft) version of this whitepaper, giving you key insights already while we are "polishing" the document a bit more:

Pre-empting the quantum transition’s inevitable crisis with cryptoagile post-quantum-cryptography

Quantum computing is no longer a dream in the distance; it is a capability that is becoming increasingly mature.  By 2035, experts say, there will be a 1 in 2 chance that quantum computers will break much of today’s encryption – cryptographic shields that protect our data.  The threat posed is not a future hypothesis, however, it is our reality today.  Every byte of encrypted data: our health records, critical infrastructure, state secrets, digital finance, the entire fossil record of our digital lives is being harvested and stored now by adversaries who know that a single future decryption breakthrough will hand them the master key – Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL), also referred to as Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL).