Latest Quantum Security, PQC, Post-Quantum, Crypto-Agility News
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Jul- 2026 -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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17 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
Singapore Tells Its Critical Infrastructure to Finish Quantum-Safe Migration by 2031
CSA's Handbook gives CII owners three quantum-safe migration milestones: plan by March 2027, quantum-safe procurement from 2028, completion by the end of 2031. The dates are clear; their public legal footing is not.
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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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23 JuneQuantum Security & PQC
Trump Signs PQC Executive Order 14412 with Hard 2030 and 2031 Deadlines for Federal Migration
Signed 22 June 2026, the order gives federal high-value assets until the end of 2030 for key establishment and the end of 2031 for signatures, and reaches contractors through a FAR rule due in December.
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18 JuneQuantum 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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17 JuneQuantum Security & PQC
France’s ANSSI Will Require PQC for Security Product Qualification From 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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12 JuneQuantum Security & PQC
NIST Begins Wiring Post-Quantum Cryptography Into Federal PIV Credentials
NIST published working drafts that would add ML-DSA and ML-KEM support to the federal Personal Identity Verification standards. The dual-stack approach preserves existing classical credentials while adding PQC key references, certificate containers, and data objects for incremental deployment.
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