A paper that shows how elliptic-curve-based cryptography becomes increasingly vulnerable by QCs From the paper’s abstract:“Solving the Discrete Logarithm problem on the group of points of an elliptic curve is one of the major cryptographic applications of Shor’s algorithm. However, current estimates for the number of qubits required remain relatively high, and notably, higher than… Read more »
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DFG funds new PQC project From the webpage:“Everything is up and running as usual: banking apps, Wi-Fi, charging stations for electric cars. But what would happen if a quantum computer suddenly rendered all encryption methods commonly used today ineffective? A research alliance composed of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da), Hochschule RheinMain – University of… Read more »
By the European Payments Council. From the webpage:“The European Payment Council (EPC) has issued its yearly update of the Guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management. The objective of this document is to provide guidance to the European payments industry in the field of cryptographic algorithms, security protocols, confidentiality and integrity protection and related… Read more »
by Marin Ivezic From the article:“[…]A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Tim Palmer, an emeritus professor of physics at Oxford, proposed that quantum computers might face a hard, physics-imposed ceiling of roughly 1,000 useful qubits — far too few, Palmer argued, to ever break RSA-2048. […]the paper doesn’t… Read more »
From the Google Security blog post:“We are beginning tests of PQC enhancements starting in the next Android 17 beta, followed by general availability in the Android 17 production release. This deployment introduces a comprehensive architectural upgrade that is being rolled out across the operating system. By integrating the recently finalized NIST PQC standards deep into… Read more »
Google is introducing a 2029 timeline to secure the quantum era with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration (Heather Adkins, VP, Security Engineering at Google). From Google Keyword blog post:“Last month, we called to secure the quantum era before a future quantum computer can break current encryption. This new timeline reflects migration needs for the PQC era… Read more »
From the blog post:“Servo now leads other browsers in support for new Web Cryptography algorithms! This includes full support for ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and AES-OCB.” An article by German IT professionals magazine iX, discussing the update can be found under: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Browser-engine-Servo-0-0-5-released-with-post-quantum-cryptography-11195613.html
A blog post by Jan Schaumann from Akamai. From the blog post:“[…] Since all of these services are using TLS for traffic encryption and endpoint authentication, upgrading these services to use the Post-Quantum/Traditional (PQ/T) hybrid key exchange algorithm […] will likewise help protect them against the quantum threat. However, other applications and services use different… Read more »