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Quantum Snake Oil
RSA Is Already Broken
The claim that RSA is already broken is false, and it is spreading fast. RSA-2048 remains unbroken, the largest number factored by Shor's algorithm on real hardware is 21, and the accurate concern is future risk, not present compromise.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Undecidable Encryption
Hilbert's tenth problem is genuinely undecidable. That fact has been used to sell "unbreakable" ciphers for three decades, and the ciphers keep falling — because undecidability is the wrong kind of hardness for cryptography.
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Quantum Snake Oil
AI-Powered Encryption
Artificial intelligence has a real, growing role in cryptography: breaking and stress-testing ciphers. Marketing that claims an AI generates or strengthens your encryption into something unbreakable has inverted how cryptographic security actually works.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Patented Cryptography
A patent proves an idea is novel and non-obvious. It says nothing about whether the cryptography is secure, because patent examiners are not cryptographers and real assurance comes from open analysis, not a grant number.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Operational Perfect Secrecy
Shannon's perfect secrecy has a precise meaning and a non-negotiable cost: the key must be at least as long as the message. "Operational Perfect Secrecy" keeps the prestige of the name while relaxing the requirement that justifies it.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Forescout Data: PQC Adoption Growing Fast, but 90% of Systems Still Exposed
Forescout's internet-wide scan of 160 million SSH hosts finds PQC-capable servers growing fast but still covering barely 12% of the total. OT and medical devices trail far behind, with no asset class on track for full migration by 2029.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Why the Quantum Attack on ECC Keeps Getting Cheaper, and Where It Stops
An open competition has driven the logical qubits for one secp256k1 point addition into the high 1,100s. The arithmetic says how much further circuit tricks can go, and exactly where they stop.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Trump Signs PQC Executive Order with Hard 2030 and 2031 Deadlines for Federal Migration
Executive Order sets hard federal PQC migration deadlines for 2030 and 2031, extends compliance to contractors through FAR amendments, and orders CISA to define cryptographic bill of materials standards. The timeline compression I predicted a month ago is now signed…
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Policy & Sovereignty
Trump Signs Executive Order Launching National Quantum Computer Build and Updating Quantum Strategy
Executive Order launches a national effort to build the first quantum computer capable of transformative scientific discovery, directs three quantum sensor projects for fielding by September 2028, and orders an updated National Quantum Strategy within 180 days.
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Industry
AIX Global Innovations Claims Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) on Rented Hardware. Their Own Paper Says Otherwise.
AIX Global Innovations claims FTQC on rented IBM hardware at one physical qubit per logical qubit. Their own paper reveals they operate at code distance 1, which by definition corrects zero errors. Here is what the paper actually says.
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Quantum Computing
Quantum Snake Oil Is Flooding the News Cycle — and the Industry Is Letting It Happen
Three extraordinary quantum claims in two weeks, none peer-reviewed, all tied to commercial events. The quantum industry's credibility problem is accelerating, and the people paying the price are the enterprises trying to make real migration decisions.
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Quantum Security & PQC
France’s ANSSI Will Block PQC-Free Products From Certification Starting 2027
ANSSI will stop certifying security products without post-quantum cryptography from 2027. France's de facto procurement gate mirrors the CNSA 2.0 timeline and adds regulatory pressure for vendors across Europe's supply chain.
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Policy & Sovereignty
Europe’s Quantum Sovereignty Problem: The Right Diagnosis, the Wrong Prescription
The EU's tech sovereignty package names quantum as a strategic priority. But its instruments remain calibrated for research, not for the industrial scaling that sovereignty requires.
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Industry
QuEra Announces Libra: 256 Logical Qubits on Amazon Braket by 2028
QuEra's Libra targets 256 error-corrected logical qubits and a one-in-a-million error rate on Amazon Braket by 2028. Every building block has been demonstrated in peer-reviewed research. This is either the most credible fault-tolerance roadmap in quantum computing, or the most…
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Quantum Sovereignty
America Just Made the Case for Quantum Sovereignty
Washington ordered two of the most capable AI models offline for every customer on the planet, and it took hours. I keep getting asked why the world wants its own quantum stack. Here is the cleanest answer I have.
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