April 15 – 16, 2026, online From the event webpage:“On April 15 and 16, 2026, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will host the 21st German IT Security Congress. BSI President Claudia Plattner will welcome participants and kick off the discussions on the first day of the congress together with the Federal Ministry of… Read more »
The Dutch national Court of Audit has published its report on the state of the preparation of national governmental organizations for quantum technologies From the webpage on the report:“71% of central government agencies have not yet begun preparations to protect themselves against the threat posed by quantum computers. This is according to the Netherlands Court… Read more »
Algorithm Identifiers for the Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (SLH-DSA): https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9909 From the LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan-lukas-gazdag-5a30b67a_after-three-years-of-work-we-were-finally-ugcPost-7419043344926023681-abfb) on the standard, by its co-author S.-L. Gazdag (genua GmbH):“After three years of work, we were finally able to publish IETF RFC standards on the use of hash-based signatures in X.509 enabling yet another step in post-quantum migration.” Further… Read more »
From the page“In the annual update to its cryptographic recommendations (TR-02102) [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan-lukas-gazdag-5a30b67a_after-three-years-of-work-we-were-finally-ugcPost-7419043344926023681-abfb], the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has, for the first time, called for an end-of-life date for classical asymmetric encryption methods. According to the BSI, these methods should no longer be used on their own by the end of 2031—and by the… Read more »
A blog post by the National Cyber Security Center, Ireland (NCSC-IE) to explain the implications of developments in quantum computing and how to keep data and information secure From the page: “While you may think your encryption is future proof, advancements in quantum computing suggest what is secure today could be vulnerable tomorrow. Quantum computing… Read more »
The European Commission has proposed a new cybersecurity package to further strengthen the EU’s cybersecurity resilience and capabilities From the document:“Other targeted amendments to the NIS 2 Directive include:[…] the requirement for Member States to adopt policies for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as part of their national cybersecurity strategy […] Given the continuously… Read more »
Q-PrEP’s first on-site workshop, on the 5th of February in Athens At the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) “Demokritos” in Athens and under the auspices of the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCSA) Greece, our project Q-PrEP brought together more than 30 speakers & experts to present & discuss the latest state of quantum-safe communication &… Read more »
… gives/updates an overview/list of products related to PQC. From the workshop page:“Executive Summary: In response to the June 6, 2025, Executive Order (EO) 14306, ‘Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144,’ the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is providing and regularly updating the… Read more »
May 10, 2026, Rome, Italy (Co-located with Eurocrypt 2026 as an affiliated workshop) From the workshop page:“The Workshop on Migration and Agility in Cryptographic Systems (MAgiCS) will take place on the 10th of May 2026 at the Città Universitaria (University Campus) of Sapienza University of Rome, co-located with Eurocrypt 2026. MAgiCS26 focuses on the topic… Read more »
January 29, 2026, online From the Webinar page:“In this panel, we will continue (by popular demand) the discussion on post quantum cryptography (PQC) focusing on the current state of the art and expectations for the next three to five years. The panelists will address PQC applications, the state of standardisation, quantum key distribution (QKD), the… Read more »