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Quantum Computing: Leadership Needed to Coordinate Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategy
Information by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Quantum computers could address some critical problems…
Quantum Threat Tracker Released
The Quantum Threat Tracker is a tool for quantifying the threat quantum computers pose to…
Hispasat and ESA agree to develop the first QKD system combining the delivery of quantum keys from GEO and LEO orbits
Q-Design is made up of a consortium of 15 companies and organizations that will be…
Chairs’ Statement on G7 Cybersecurity Working Group Meeting
Canada, under the leadership of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) and Public Safety Canada,…
AWS KMS Adds Support for Post-Quantum ML-DAS Digital Signatures
The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now supports the FIPS 203 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Standard…
BSI Trend Survey 2025
Participation is anonymous and is possible until 11.08.2025 The BSI is the cyber security authority…
Apple CryptoKit inclues quantum-secure APIs now
Apple therefore provides Sample Code (link) and a Video Tutorial (link) to introduce developers using…
National Cybersecurity Strategies: What’s new in the EU’s national cybersecurity policymaking
Map unveiled in June The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) unveils the update of…
Update by ECCG on Agreed Cryptographic Mechanisms involves PQC
The ECCG (European Cybersecurity Certification Group), sub-group on Cryptography, has published the update to version…
AMD introduces Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA Family covering NIST-approved PQC
The latest family of high I/O FPGAs by AMD, known as AMD Spartan Ultrascale+ provides, amongst other…
EntropiQ Launches to Deliver First Fully Integrated Quantum Entropy as a Service (QEaaS) for Critical Infrastructure
EntropiQ, describing itself as the pioneer of Quantum Entropy as a Service (QEaaS), has recently…
New OpenSSH Release Implements Hybrid-PQC Algorithm
With the latest release of OpenSSH, the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the…
Czech Cybersecurity Agency published study on “harvest now, decrypt later”
The Czech Cybersecurity Agency NUKIB would like to draw your attention to the “harvest now, decrypt…
Cloudflare Radar – Estimate of post-quantum adapted/encrypted traffic
Cloudflare, a content delivery network who has been researching and writing about post-quantum since 2017, has deployed…
Post-Quantum Cryptography Comes to Windows Insiders and Linux
As announced in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27863, Microsoft is “[…] adding support for…
Tracking the Cost of Quantum Factoring
In a recently published preprint (available via arxiv), Craig Gidney, a Quantum Research Scientist explains How…
4th PQC Update: Seven Key Steps Forward in Post-Quantum Cryptography
The EU plans to make digital encryption completely quantum-safe by 2035 at the latest. As quantum computers grow more…
Webinars series started successful
We use various methods to keep our Q-PrEP community up to date on trends and…
RSAC 2025 Conference
April 28 – May 1, 2025 San Francisco > sessions available on demand online For…
ETSI/IQC Whitepaper: Preparing for a quantum safe future
Exectuive perspectives on the transition of cyber infrastructures and busines practices to ensure security in…
The Qday Prize
Project 11 has started a competition on: Can you break ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) by…
XJTLU team sets code-breaking record for testing post-quantum online security
On 4 March, a research team led by Professor Jintai Ding, Dean of the School…
New Encryption to Fend Off Tomorrow’s Quantum Threats
Method for Key Exchange Enables Cost-effective and Tap-proof Communication Quantum computers are a specter for…
Status of European roadmap on PQC has been presented
At the INCYBER FORUM EUROPE in April Heike Hagemeier (BMI, BSI) and Anita Wehmann (Dutch…
Google and BSI work on secure cloud solutions for the public sector
Google Cloud and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) signed a strategic cooperation…
Timelines for migration to post-quantum cryptography
Activities which organisations must carry out to migrate safely to post-quantum cryptography in the coming…
German federal budget: IT security to be largely exempt from the debt brake
The CDU/CSU, SPD and the green party have agreed on a financial package that loosens…
Call for action on PQC by the Think7
Accelerating the Transition to Quantum-Safe Communication: A Call for Global Collaboration and Action Steady progress…
Workshop on Quantum-Safe Hybrid Cryptography
June 25, 2025, Co-located with ACNS 2025, Munich, Germany This workshop aims to explore the…
NIST selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for PQC Encryption
NIST has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption called HQC, which will serve as…
OpenTitan: Open source & quantum-safe RISC-V security chip for Chromebooks
With malicious software on the rise, how can you be certain that a computer, server,…
First quantum-safe smartcard certified
German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has now certified a smart card Certified smartcards…
Utimaco launched Quantum Protect
Utimaco is a German company, based in Aachen. Quantum Protect extends the u.trust General Purpose…
BSI expands cryptographic recommendations with a view to quantum computers
Quantum computers are within reach and pose a serious threat to today’s data with increased…
Google Expands Post-Quantum Cryptography Support with Quantum-Safe Digital Signature
The continued advancement of experimental quantum computing has raised concerns about the security of many…
OpenSSL 3.5: Upcoming Release Announcement
Important dates Feature branches include/exclude decision date: February 11, 2025 Feature branches merge: February 18, 2025 Repository…
Kick off meeting
March 28, 2025 Today the official kick off meeting of the project on Quantum-Proofing European…