The discovery and exploitation of quantum mechanics will inevitably be noted as a pivotal milestone, setting the stage for the advent of quantum computing—a field that has the potential to redefine ...

Microsoft is speeding up its quantum-safe security timeline, noting that advances in quantum computing and new federal requirements have pushed post-quantum cryptography from a future planning issue ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its Federal Information Process Standards for post-quantum cryptography, a new set of standards that ...

Action by a government standards agency on potential post-quantum cryptographic algorithms will strongly stimulate the PQC market over the next five years, according to an international research and ...

The plugboard of an enigma machine, a cipher device that helped Nazi Germany obfuscate top-secret messages during World War II. Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski played a pivotal role in breaking ...

An IBM quantum computer during a 2023 inauguration event. Last week, a cybersecurity-focused trade group for the financial services industry released a whitepaper advocating for banks and other ...

Quantum computing isn’t mainstream yet, but the security implications are already on tech leaders’ radars. Today’s widely used public-key encryption standards were designed for classical computers, ...

New quantum-safe encryption standards have been published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The specification defines a scheme for key encapsulation mechanisms with access ...

The world’s first post-quantum cryptography standards have been formalized by the US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). The standards provide organizations with a framework to secure ...

Quantum-resilient cryptography took a step forward this week with the launch of the FHE Technical Consortium for Hardware (FHETCH), a group focused on interoperability between fully homomorphic ...

Scientific guidance meant to ensure the U.S. is ready to shore up cyber defenses against a potential quantum computers’ ability to break through modern encryption methods are set for release the week ...

The National Security Agency claims that the encryption standards it's developing will be so tough that even its own hackers won't be able to crack them. Okay! Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. has been ...