PostQuantum - Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) together with the NSA and NIST released a joint cybersecurity factsheet titled “Quantum-Readiness: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography.” This document was created to inform organizations - “especially those that support Critical Infrastructure” - about the looming impact of quantum ...

22 Jun 2023 - Every conversation about silicon spin qubits eventually arrives at the same claim: because these qubits are essentially single-electron transistors, they can be manufactured using the same processes that produce billions of classical transistors every year. The implication is staggering — a ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a report under Project Leap demonstrating - via a realistic central‑bank payments connectivity experiment - that post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) can be deployed today in a hybrid mode without breaking core operational expectations for secure inter‑site connectivity. The report’s headline message is ...

Chinese scientists have shattered the distance record for quantum key distribution (QKD) by successfully exchanging secure cryptographic keys across 1,002 kilometers of optical fiber – more than double the previous record. In a landmark experiment published in Physical Review Letters, a team from the University of ...

A new, interesting, report was just published by the Hudson institute - "Prosperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System," authored by Alexander W. Butler and Arthur Herman of the Quantum Alliance Initiative at the Hudson Institute. This comprehensive study explores ...

Feb 2023 - Quantum computers hold the promise of tackling problems beyond the reach of classical machines, but they are notoriously fragile. Even tiny disturbances can introduce errors into quantum computations. To build a fault-tolerant quantum computer - one that can reliably run long computations ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Ruhr University Bochum have made a significant breakthrough in quantum technology by achieving controlled interaction between two quantum light sources, or quantum emitters, embedded in a nanophotonic waveguide. This development, reported in Science, is a foundational step toward ...

In January 2023, the Government of Canada formally unveiled its National Quantum Strategy, a comprehensive plan backed by a federal investment of $360 million. Announced in Waterloo, Ontario by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, the strategy is designed to amplify Canada’s strengths in quantum research, grow quantum ...

On December 21, 2022, President Joe Biden officially signed H.R.7535, known as the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, into law. This legislation urges federal agencies to upgrade their technologies to defend against potential quantum computing threats. The act is a crucial step in the United ...

The "2022 Quantum Threat Timeline Report" by the Global Risk Institute, authored by Dr. Michele Mosca and Dr. Marco Piani from evolutionQ Inc. was just published. This report provides analysis of the quantum threat landscape and tries to predict the arrival of the Q-Day by ...

IBM has announced Osprey, a superconducting quantum processor with a record-breaking 433 qubits – by far the largest of its kind as of its 2022 debut. Revealed at the IBM Quantum Summit in November 2022, Osprey more than triples the qubit count of IBM’s previous ...

November 20, 2022 - The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a new memorandum that could reshape federal cybersecurity for the coming quantum era. OMB Memorandum M-23-02, titled "Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography," was released on November 18, 2022 and directs U.S ...

In October 2022, Switzerland and the U.S. signed a Joint Statement on Cooperation in Quantum Information Science and Technology, pledging to deepen collaboration between the countries’ researchers and institutions. The agreement, signed in Washington D.C. by Switzerland’s State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation and ...

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has released a report titled "Post-Quantum Cryptography - Integration Study," offering a comprehensive look at the challenges and necessities of integrating post-quantum cryptographic systems. This publication follows ENISA's 2021 study on the current state of post-quantum cryptography and ...

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has officially announced the release of the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0), a new set of cryptographic standards designed to protect sensitive systems against future quantum-enabled cyber threats. The NSA’s cybersecurity advisory notifies National Security System ...

25 Aug 2022 - Seven months ago, three teams simultaneously proved that silicon spin qubits could operate above the fault-tolerance threshold — the quality of individual gates good enough, in principle, for error correction to work. That was the prerequisite. Now comes the thing itself ...

President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (H.R. 4346, Public Law 117-167) into law on August 9, 2022 - a historic $280 billion package aimed at boosting U.S. high-tech manufacturing and research. While best known for providing $52 billion to revitalize domestic semiconductor fabrication, the ...

D-Wave achieved a significant corporate milestone by listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “QBTS”. The public debut came via a merger with a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company) and made D-Wave one of only three quantum computing companies in the world to ...