The Impacts of Government Regulations on PQC Product Availability

By: Mike Luken — December 16^th 2024 at 13:00

U.S. government regulation has an impact on PQC availability, with different certified encryption methods being required for products handling government info.

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Quantum Cryptography: What’s Coming Next

By: Mike Luken — November 20^th 2024 at 13:00

NIST developed new quantum-resistant cryptographic standards, but operationalizing these standards will require more work.

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The Countdown Has Begun: Getting Started on Your Post-Quantum Journey

By: Mike Luken — October 9^th 2024 at 12:00

Using existing encryption and key management technologies, enterprises can realize quantum-safe encryption today without waiting for implementations.

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Zoom Adopts NIST-Approved Post-Quantum End-to-End Encryption for Meetings

By: Newsroom — May 22^nd 2024 at 04:46

Popular enterprise services provider Zoom has announced the rollout of post-quantum end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Zoom Meetings, with support for Zoom Phone and Zoom Rooms coming in the future. "As adversarial threats become more sophisticated, so does the need to safeguard user data," the company said in a statement. "With the launch of post-quantum E2EE, we are doubling down on

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Apple Unveils PQ3 Protocol - Post-Quantum Encryption for iMessage

By: Newsroom — February 22^nd 2024 at 16:25

Apple has announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 that it said will be integrated into iMessage to secure the messaging platform against future attacks arising from the threat of a practical quantum computer. "With compromise-resilient encryption and extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks, PQ3 is the first messaging protocol to reach

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Finally Real in Consumer Apps?

By: The Hacker News — September 29^th 2023 at 11:48

Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it's keeping them up tonight. Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to protect their fundamental digital privacy and security, whether for messaging friends and family, storing files and photos, or

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Google Introduces First Quantum Resilient FIDO2 Security Key Implementation

By: THN — August 16^th 2023 at 10:59

Google on Tuesday announced the first quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation as part of its OpenSK security keys initiative. "This open-source hardware optimized implementation uses a novel ECC/Dilithium hybrid signature schema that benefits from the security of ECC against standard attacks and Dilithium's resilience against quantum attacks," Elie Bursztein and Fabian Kaczmarczyck

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Enhancing TLS Security: Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Encryption in Chrome 116

By: THN — August 11^th 2023 at 12:22

Google has announced plans to add support for quantum-resistant encryption algorithms in its Chrome browser, starting with version 116. "Chrome will begin supporting X25519Kyber768 for establishing symmetric secrets in TLS, starting in Chrome 116, and available behind a flag in Chrome 115," Devon O'Brien said in a post published Thursday. Kyber was chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce's

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Experts Discover Flaw in U.S. Govt's Chosen Quantum-Resistant Encryption Algorithm

By: Ravie Lakshmanan — March 6^th 2023 at 08:30

A group of researchers has revealed what it says is a vulnerability in a specific implementation of CRYSTALS-Kyber, one of the encryption algorithms chosen by the U.S. government as quantum-resistant last year. The exploit relates to "side-channel attacks on up to the fifth-order masked implementations of CRYSTALS-Kyber in ARM Cortex-M4 CPU," Elena Dubrova, Kalle Ngo, and Joel Gärtner of KTH

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