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Quantum Security & PQC
Microsoft PQC Acceleration: What Was Announced
The company that said 2033 ten months ago now says 2029. With Google and Cloudflare already committed, three of the internet's most consequential infrastructure providers have converged on the same post-quantum deadline.
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Policy & Sovereignty
Europe’s €19.8 Million Bet on Quantum Talent: The European Quantum Academy Launches
The EU officially launched the European Quantum Academy with €19.8 million, 70 partner institutions, and targets to train 600 quantum professionals. The ambition is right. The numbers deserve scrutiny.
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Industry
NIST and SRI Launch the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center
NIST is investing $20 million to establish a Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center with SRI International, moving from the consortium that mapped the quantum industry to a center tasked with manufacturing at scale.
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Quantum Computing
Microsoft’s Majorana Qubit: What the Experts Actually Think
I've never trusted the Majorana story, but I'm no condensed-matter physicist. So after the latest chip and the latest Nature rebuttal, I went looking for where the experts, skeptics and defenders both, actually land.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Shannon Hustle: How Vendors Abuse Perfect Secrecy to Sell You Less Than You Think
Vendors drop "Shannon" into pitch decks to imply information-theoretic security. The math says otherwise. A five-question framework for evaluating any claim of perfect secrecy with practical key sizes.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
US Federal PQC Mandate After June 2026: Complete Guide
June 2026 transformed US PQC policy from planning guidance into enforceable mandates. This is the complete picture: what applies to whom, by when, and under which authority.
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Quantum Security & PQC
OMB M-26-15: The Federal PQC Migration Playbook Arrived in Two Days
OMB delivered the federal PQC migration playbook in two days, not ninety. The five-phase timeline, the algorithm choices, and what it means for agencies and contractors.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Inside the DoW Post-Quantum Strategy: The Defense Half of Trump’s PQC Mandate
Released a day after two quantum executive orders, the Pentagon's first PQC strategy covers the National Security Systems that EO 14412 carves out. The same 2030 and 2031 dates appear in both, but they don't mean the same thing.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Wave Encryption
Encoding ciphertext into electromagnetic or other waves describes how data travels, not how it is secured. "Wave encryption" dresses ordinary transmission as a cryptographic feature, and the two belong to entirely different layers.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Unbounded Key Length
Key length matters up to a point, then stops buying security entirely. Claims of unbounded, infinite, or million-bit keys signal a vendor who has confused raw numbers with the hard problems that actually make encryption strong.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Future-Proof Encryption
Every cipher once considered unbreakable has an expiry date, from DES to MD5 to SHA-1. "Future-proof" promises permanence that cryptography has never delivered; the honest goal is crypto-agility, which is almost its opposite.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Air-Gapped Encryption
An air gap is a real security measure and encryption is a real technology, but "air-gapped encryption" welds them into a phrase with no definition — one that papers over a contradiction and overstates what either can do.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Quantum Apocalypse
The quantum threat to cryptography is real, but "quantum apocalypse" wraps it in language built to sell panic. Q-Day is a migration problem with deadlines, not a sudden collapse, and the difference shapes how you should respond.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Removes the Attack Surface
Encryption changes where a system's attack surface sits; it does not remove it. A vendor promising zero attack surface is promising something that cannot exist, which is one of the most reliable warning signs in security.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Zero-Data PQC
"Zero-data PQC" markets the avoidance of data movement as if it were cryptographic protection. But PQC's job is to protect data in transit, which is a separate question from whether your data moves to a cloud during migration.
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