Latest Quantum Security, PQC, Post-Quantum, Crypto-Agility News
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Apr- 2026 -5 AprilQuantum Security & PQC News
Quantum Threat Timeline Report 2025: Record Predictions, But Can the Survey Keep Up?
5 Apr 2026 - The Global Risk Institute (GRI) and evolutionQ Inc. have published the seventh edition of their annual Quantum Threat Timeline Report, the longest-running expert survey dedicated to estimating when a quantum computer will be capable of breaking widely deployed public-key cryptography. The report, dated 9 March 2026 and authored by Dr. Michele Mosca (co-founder and CEO of…
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1 AprilQuantum Security & PQC News
QuantumShield360 AI Achieves World’s First Complete Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration — Full Quantum Resilience Across All Enterprise Systems
Scottsdale, AZ — April 1, 2026 — QuantumShield360 AI, a next-generation quantum-resilient cybersecurity platform leveraging AI-powered lattice synergies, today announced it has completed a full, end-to-end migration to post-quantum cryptographic standards across its entire technology stack — becoming the first company in history to achieve total quantum resilience. "While Fortune 500 companies are still conducting cryptographic inventories and debating algorithm…
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Mar- 2026 -31 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
10,000 Qubits to Run Shor’s Algorithm
31 Mar 2026 - On the same day that Google Quantum AI published its landmark ECDLP-256 resource estimates showing fewer than 500,000 superconducting qubits could break cryptocurrency cryptography in minutes, a team from Oratomic, Caltech, and UC Berkeley quietly dropped a paper making an even more startling claim about qubit count: Shor's algorithm can be executed at cryptographically relevant scales…
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31 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
Google Quantum AI Achieves 10x Reduction in Resources to Break Bitcoin’s Cryptography
31 Mar 2026 - Google Quantum AI has published a 57-page whitepaper demonstrating that the quantum resources needed to break the elliptic curve cryptography protecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and virtually every major cryptocurrency are roughly an order of magnitude smaller than previously estimated. The paper, titled "Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities: Resource Estimates and Mitigations" and co-authored with researchers…
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27 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
The U.S. Intelligence Community Just Put Quantum on Equal Footing with AI. And Expanded the Threat Definition
27 Mar 2026 - Every March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence publishes a document that most Americans will never read but that quietly shapes trillions of dollars in defense spending, intelligence priorities, and technology policy. The Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) is the Intelligence Community's official, unclassified evaluation of the threats facing the United States - a consensus…
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25 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
Google Just Drew a Line in the Sand: PQC Migration by 2029
25 Mar 2026 - The company building the quantum computer is telling you the clock is running out. That should get your attention. On March 25, 2026, Google published a brief but consequential blog post authored by Heather Adkins, VP of Security Engineering, and Sophie Schmieg, Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer. Buried beneath a deliberately understated title - "Quantum frontiers may…
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15 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
A New Algorithm Shrinks the Quantum Attack Surface for ECC
15 Mar 2026 - When Clémence Chevignard, Pierre-Alain Fouque, and André Schrottenloher submitted their latest paper to EUROCRYPT 2026, they already had a track record that the cryptographic community was watching closely. In 2024, the same team at INRIA Rennes had published a method that slashed the qubit requirements for quantum factoring of RSA integers - work that Craig Gidney…
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7 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
The White House Just Released Its New National Cyber Strategy. It’s Not a Strategy.
7 Mar 2026 - On Friday afternoon - the traditional Washington burial ground for news you'd rather not have scrutinized - the White House released "President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America," the administration's long-delayed national cybersecurity strategy document. Originally expected in January, the strategy outlines six policy pillars that will ostensibly guide the nation's cybersecurity posture going forward. The document…
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3 MarchQuantum Security & PQC News
The “Cybersecurity Apocalypse in 2026” and the Jesse–Victor–Gharabaghi (JVG) Algorithm: Why This Claim Doesn’t Hold Up
A preprint manuscript (ID: 202510.1649) titled “A Novel Hybrid Quantum Circuit for Integer Factorization: End-to-End Evaluation in Simulation and Real Quantum Hardware” was published on the Preprints.org server. Authored by researchers affiliated with the Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute (AQTI), the paper introduces the "Jesse–Victor–Gharabaghi (JVG) algorithm" - a hybrid classical-quantum approach to integer factorization that proposes replacing the Quantum Fourier Transform…
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Feb- 2026 -28 FebruaryQuantum Security & PQC News
Google’s Merkle Tree (MTC) Gambit to Quantum-Proof HTTPS
Google will not put post-quantum signatures into traditional X.509 certificates for Chrome. Instead, the company announced in February 2026 a fundamentally different architecture - Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) - that shrinks quantum-resistant TLS authentication data from roughly 14,700 bytes down to as little as 736 bytes, making post-quantum HTTPS potentially smaller than today's classical certificate chains. The approach, developed jointly…
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13 FebruaryQuantum Security & PQC News
No, the “Pinnacle Architecture” Is Not Bringing Q-Day Closer 2-5 Years (but It Is Credible Research)
Since the preprint paper of The Pinnacle Architecture preprint hit and its Quantum Insider coverage ran, my phone has been ringing off the hook. The question behind most of those calls is simple: does this mean RSA is suddenly in imminent trouble? Is it true that this paper brought the Q-Day closer 2-5 years? (Who said that?!?)... The short answer is NO - not…
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13 FebruaryQuantum Security & PQC News
The EU Just Proposed Including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) in NIS2
On 20 January 2026, the European Commission published COM(2026) 13 final - a proposed directive amending NIS2 as part of a broader cybersecurity simplification package tied to the upcoming Cybersecurity Act 2. The proposal covers a range of updates: streamlining scope definitions, simplifying cross-border supervision, introducing ransomware reporting requirements, and enabling cyber posture certification as a compliance tool. But buried…
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8 FebruaryQuantum Security & PQC News
China Just Pushed Device-Independent QKD (DI-QKD) to 100 Kilometres
A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) published a paper in Science that quietly redrew the map of what device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) can do. Led by Bo-Wei Lu, Chao-Wei Yang, Run-Qi Wang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and the ever-present Jian-Wei Pan - the physicist sometimes called China's quantum communications supremo - the experiment demonstrated DI-QKD…
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6 FebruaryQuantum Security & PQC News
India’s Task Force Releases Quantum‑Safe Roadmap with 2027–2029 Migration Timeline for CII
India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) published the “Implementation of Quantum Safe Ecosystem in India – Report of the Task Force.” This report, produced by a national Task Force under DST, lays out a strategic roadmap for transitioning India’s digital infrastructure to quantum-resistant security. The Task Force was chaired by Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay (CEO of C-DOT) and convened experts…
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3 FebruaryQuantum Security & PQC News
Hong Kong’s HKMA Launches Quantum Preparedness Index to Safeguard Finance
Hong Kong’s central bank unveils a “Quantum Preparedness Index” to gauge how ready its banks are for the quantum computing era, underscoring a global push among regulators to future-proof financial security. Hong Kong’s de facto central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), has announced the launch of a Quantum Preparedness Index (QPI) as part of its new Fintech Promotion…
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