At the INCYBER FORUM EUROPE in April Heike Hagemeier (BMI, BSI) and Anita Wehmann (Dutch Ministry of the Interior), both from the European Workstream on PQC, presented the status of the PQC roadmap for the EU: “acting upon the quantum threat now!” The European Commission issued a Recommendation on Post-Quantum Cryptography on April 11, 2024… Read more »
Google Cloud and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) signed a strategic cooperation agreement in February 2025. The aim is to support the development and provision of secure and sovereign cloud solutions for federal, state and local authorities. A particular focus of the agreement is on ensuring data sovereignty. The solutions developed are… Read more »
August 25 – 28, 2025, Aalborg, Denmark The International PQC Summer School at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, August 25-29 2025 explores emerging trends and challenges in post-quantum cryptography, a critical field as quantum computing advances. With PQC algorithms now being integrated into networked systems, new challenges must be addressed. This event will be held at Aalborg University, Copenhagen,… Read more »
Activities which organisations must carry out to migrate safely to post-quantum cryptography in the coming years. Executive summary The national migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), mitigating the threat from future quantum computers, is a mass technology change that will take a number of years. The NCSC recognises the need both to offer guidance on some… Read more »
The CDU/CSU, SPD and the green party have agreed on a financial package that loosens the debt brake. This includes the budget for IT security: it is no longer to be counted towards the debt brake if expenditure exceeds 1% of gross domestic product in future. The same regulation applies to expenditure for the German… Read more »
Accelerating the Transition to Quantum-Safe Communication: A Call for Global Collaboration and Action Steady progress in quantum computing threatens our cybersecurity infrastructure and necessitates a faster transition to quantum-safe communication. Due to the international nature of communication networks, and the diverse range of stakeholders involved, this transition can only be successfully achieved through a structured… Read more »
June 25, 2025, Co-located with ACNS 2025, Munich, Germany This workshop aims to explore the synergies between (symmetric/asymmetric) quantum-safe and quantum cryptography. A leading example is the design of Hybrid Authenticated Key Exchange (HAKE) protocols that combine conventional, post-quantum, and quantum cryptography. While the topic is traditional, several new approaches have been proposed recently. The… Read more »
NIST has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption called HQC, which will serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm for general encryption.HQC is based on different math than ML-KEM, which could be important if a weakness were discovered in ML-KEM. NIST plans to issue a draft standard incorporating the HQC algorithm in… Read more »
With malicious software on the rise, how can you be certain that a computer, server, or mobile device is running the code (and provisioning data) that was intended? You can’t just ask the code itself, so where do you start? The answer is deceptively simple – start where you have certainty and build up a chain… Read more »
German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has now certified a smart card Certified smartcards offer users verified and therefore trustworthy security functionality and cryptography. They are used in particular where high security requirements apply. These include ID cards, health cards, credit cards and SIM cards for cell phones. The German Federal Office for Information… Read more »