Latest Quantum Security, PQC, Post-Quantum, Crypto-Agility News
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Aug- 2026 -4 AugustQuantum Security & PQC
First External Operators Apply to Chrome’s Post-Quantum Certificate Test Program
TrustAsia filed the first known CA application for Chrome's Merkle Tree Certificate test root store. The filing implements two recently standardized mechanisms from the IETF PLANTS draft, adding concrete evidence that post-quantum web PKI infrastructure is moving from draft to deployment.
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3 AugustQuantum Security & PQC
HKMA Gives Hong Kong Banks a 2.3 Out of 10 on Quantum Readiness, Targets Full Migration by 2030
HKMA's first Quantum Preparedness Index scores Hong Kong's banking sector PQC readiness at 2.3 out of 10. Most respondents remain at an early stage, while the regulator targets full sectoral readiness by 2030.
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2 AugustQuantum Security & PQC
87% of Organizations Are Pursuing PQC. Only 7% Have Deployed It.
DigiCert's second annual PQC survey finds at-scale certificate deployment barely moved in a year. The barrier profile now points to execution, not awareness, and that tells us more than the headline number.
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2 AugustQuantum Security & PQC
MAS Targets Quantum Resilience for FIs by End of Decade
Singapore's central bank will issue supervisory expectations with progressive milestones for financial institutions' quantum-safe migration. The stated aim: quantum resilience before the end of this decade.
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Jul- 2026 -30 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
Pure ML-KEM for TLS 1.3 Reaches IETF Last Call
The IESG is taking final comments on standalone ML-KEM key establishment for TLS 1.3 until August 13, after three Working Group Last Calls, a contested consensus determination, and a chairs' refusal to release the numbers behind it.
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29 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
AI Broke a NIST Candidate. Not Your Encryption
Claude Mythos Preview recovered HAWK-256 challenge keys and improved a 13-year-old reduced-round AES result. ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon, and production AES are untouched. The real shift is the cost of finding flaws.
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24 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
Bitcoin’s Institutions Take On the Quantum Security Bill
Nine institutions pledged $15 million over three years for Bitcoin security, with quantum readiness the first workstream. Galaxy separately announced up to $5 million in developer grants for post-quantum work.
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20 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
ECC Attack Circuit Drops to 835 Logical Qubits
The same Tsinghua-Peking group whose April preprint reached 1,333 qubits for a 256-bit ECC attack has pushed to 835, the lowest yet. The circuit is narrower, but the gate count is 20 times higher than the leading alternative. Smaller machine, longer run.
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13 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
FINMA Quantum Guidance Puts a Mid-2027 Date on Swiss PQC Roadmaps
Switzerland's financial regulator surveyed 60 institutions and found 72% with no quantum-safe measures. Its answer: board-level PQC strategies, roadmaps by mid-2027, and crypto-agility written into outsourcing contracts.
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9 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
The ECB’s AI Cybersecurity Letter to Banks Is Also a Quantum Announcement
The euro area's banking supervisor gave 110 bank CEOs an October 31 deadline for AI cyber action plans, then used the final paragraph to start the quantum clock. Here is what the coming quantum letter will demand.
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5 JulyQuantum 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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5 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
Post-Quantum OpenPGP Arrives: RFC 9980, the GnuPG Split, and the Signature Gap
The IETF has standardized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA for OpenPGP, with hybrid-only lattice cryptography and a v4 compatibility carve-out. The bigger story is the implementation split that decides whether any of it interoperates.
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Jun- 2026 -25 JuneQuantum 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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25 JuneQuantum 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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24 JuneQuantum 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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