The ECCG (European Cybersecurity Certification Group), sub-group on Cryptography, has published the update to version 2.0 on the Agreed Cryptographic Mechanisms at the end of April.  Compared to its predecessor version 1.3, compiled still by SO-GIS (Senior Officials Group Information Systems Security) in February 2023, post-quantum cryptography is recognized playing a much bigger, major role in cybersecurity and in the… Read more »

The latest family of high I/O FPGAs by AMD, known as AMD Spartan Ultrascale+ provides, amongst other features, special state-of-the-art security solutions. One of their security main measures is the implementation of PQC-resistant algorithms for confidentiality and authentication, e.g., to protect the FPGA design IP of the user/developer.  A recording of the presentation Secure Your Systems with State-of-the-Art Security Features on… Read more »

EntropiQ, describing itself as the pioneer of Quantum Entropy as a Service (QEaaS), has recently started its main service, of providing on-demand, elastic, high-performance quantum entropy, transmitted via a PQC-encrypted network and a API-based platform.  EntropiQ is already operational in Equinix Solution Validation Centers in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., with upcoming expansions to Frankfurt (GER/EU) and Abu… Read more »

With the latest release of OpenSSH, the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol, the hybrid post-quantum algorithm mlkem768x25519-sha256 is now used by default for key agreement. This algorithm is considered to be safe against attack by quantum computers, is guaranteed to be no less strong than the popular curve25519-sha256 algorithm, has been standardised… Read more »

The Czech Cybersecurity Agency NUKIB would like to draw your attention to the “harvest now, decrypt later” method and its study on the matter from April 23rd 2025:  In addition to its benefits for many industries, quantum computing poses a potential threat to cybersecurity. This is that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could in the future… Read more »

Cloudflare, a content delivery network who has been researching and writing about post-quantum since 2017, has deployed and is actively expanding the use of post-quantum hybrid key agreement, to protect users against the risk of “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks. It is furthermore considering all connections that take place for websites or applications on their systems.  Recently,… Read more »

As announced in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27863, Microsoft is “[…] adding support for post-quantum signature algorithm ML-DSA in NCrypt and BCrypt cryptography API surfaces, as well as Crypt32 certificate APIs. Three variants are supported, ML-DSA 44, 65, and 87.”  Putting this very technical information into the context of Microsoft’s general strategy on PQC,… Read more »

In a recently published preprint (available via arxiv), Craig Gidney, a Quantum Research Scientist explains How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits – research he has been conducting at Google AI Quantum.  In a corresponding blogpost on the matter and its implications on encryption, he states that in order to… Read more »