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Aug- 2025 -20 AugustQuantum Security & PQC
Microsoft Sets 2029 and 2033 Dates for Its Quantum-Safe Transition
Microsoft's Quantum Safe Program targets early adoption of post-quantum cryptography by 2029 and completion across its products by 2033, two years ahead of most government deadlines, beginning with its SymCrypt library.
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Jul- 2025 -31 JulyPolicy & Sovereignty
Quantum Cybersecurity Migration Act: U.S. Senate Ramps Up Push for Post-Quantum Readiness
On July 31, 2025, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the National Quantum Cybersecurity Migration Strategy Act, a bipartisan bill to ensure the federal government prepares for encryption-breaking quantum computers. The legislation directs a White House office (leveraging the NSTC’s ESIX subcommittee) to develop a comprehensive national strategy for post-quantum cybersecurity, and it mandates that federal…
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15 JulyQuantum Security & PQC
Future Encrypted: Post-Quantum Cryptography Tops the Cyber Agenda – Key Insights for CISOs
A new Capgemini Research Institute report, “Future Encrypted: Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Tops the New Cybersecurity Agenda”, reveals that while awareness of the quantum threat is rising at the executive level, organizational readiness is dangerously lagging. Nearly two-thirds of businesses now see quantum computing as the most critical cybersecurity threat of the next 3-5 years. “Quantum readiness isn’t about predicting a…
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7 JulyPolicy & Sovereignty
Quantum-Readiness Roadmap: BIS Calls Finance to Prepare for the Post-Quantum Era
On July 7, 2025 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – often called the “central bank of central banks” – published a major paper titled “Quantum-readiness for the financial system: a roadmap.” This BIS Paper No. 158, authored by experts from BIS’s Innovation Hub and several central banks, provides a comprehensive framework to help the global financial sector transition to…
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1 JulyQuantum Computing
How Shor’s Algorithm Actually Works, Explained from Scratch
How does a quantum computer factor a number that would take every classical computer longer than the age of the universe? A step-by-step walkthrough with no prerequisites beyond multiplication.
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Jun- 2025 -26 JunePolicy & Sovereignty
Government of Canada Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Migration Roadmap
On June 23, 2025 The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) has issued a new roadmap for migrating the Government of Canada’s IT systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Effective June 23, 2025, this guidance, "Roadmap for the migration to post-quantum cryptography for the Government of Canada (ITSM.40.001)" lays out clear deadlines and expectations for all federal departments and agencies to…
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25 JunePolicy & Sovereignty
The U.S. GAO Publishes a Quantum Threat Report – Right on Strategy but Wrong on Timing
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a June 2025 report titled “Quantum Computing: Leadership Needed to Coordinate Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategy” (GAO-25-108590). GAO makes many spot-on recommendations – calling for strong federal leadership, workforce development, investment in post-quantum readiness, and securing the quantum tech supply chain – and I wholeheartedly agree with these points. However, I strongly disagree…
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24 JunePolicy & Sovereignty
EU Commission Roadmap Targets 2030 for Post-Quantum Cryptography Transition
On June 23, 2025, the European Commission and EU Member States unveiled a coordinated roadmap to transition Europe’s digital infrastructure to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This plan lays out a clear timeline for moving to quantum-resistant encryption, recognizing the urgent threat that future quantum computers pose to classical cryptography. PQC is seen as a key measure to deflect advanced cyber threats…
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15 JuneQuantum Security & PQC
“Tour de Gross” Bets That High‑Rate QLDPC Modules Can Beat the Surface Code on Qubit Economics – If Inter‑Module Measurements and Links Can Catch Up.
The June 2025 preprint “Tour de gross” proposes the bicycle architecture: a modular, long‑range‑connected fault‑tolerant quantum computing stack built around bivariate bicycle (BB) quantum LDPC codes and an explicit set of fault‑tolerant logical “bicycle instructions” (logical measurements, automorphisms, and T‑state injection). The paper’s central claim is architectural: for a fixed number of physical qubits and a fixed physical error rate,…
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12 JuneQuantum Security & PQC
GSA Publishes a Post-Quantum Cryptography Buyer’s Guide for Federal Agencies
Version 1 of GSA's Post-Quantum Cryptography Buyer's Guide maps PQC purchases onto existing contract vehicles and five use cases, and concedes that no automated discovery tool yet captures all nine required inventory items.
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May- 2025 -28 MayResearch
Quantum Breakthrough Slashes Qubit Needs for RSA-2048 Factoring
A new research preprint by Google Quantum AI scientist Craig Gidney has dramatically lowered the estimated resources needed to break RSA-2048 encryption using a quantum computer. Gidney’s May 2025 paper, “How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits,” argues that a fault-tolerant quantum computer with under 1 million qubits could factor a 2048-bit RSA…
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Apr- 2025 -30 AprilQuantum Security & PQC
Europe’s New Cryptographic Rulebook Just Made PQC Official
30 Apr 2025 - For years, the EU's position on post-quantum cryptography could be summarized as "we're watching closely." That changed in April 2025, when the European Cybersecurity Certification Group - the body that decides which cryptographic mechanisms are acceptable for products certified under Europe's EUCC scheme - published Version 2.0 of its Agreed Cryptographic Mechanisms document. It's the first…
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13 AprilQuantum Security & PQC
SC081v3 and the 47‑Day Certificate Era: What the CA/B Forum Just Set in Motion
On April 11, 2025, the CA/Browser Forum published Ballot SC081v3, “Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods,” alongside a draft of the TLS Baseline Requirements updated for IPR review. The ballot sets a phased schedule that shrinks maximum publicly trusted TLS server certificate validity from 398 days to 200 days (March 15, 2026), then 100 days (March 15, 2027), and ultimately 47 days…
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10 AprilQuantum Security & PQC
OpenSSL 3.5 Ships with Post-Quantum Cryptography On by Default
OpenSSL 3.5.0 ships with ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA built in, and defaults TLS key exchange to hybrid PQC. For the millions of servers and applications running OpenSSL, PQC just went from "find a plugin" to "update your library."
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Mar- 2025 -31 MarchQuantum Security & PQC
PCI DSS v4.0.1 Puts Cryptographic Inventory on the Compliance Calendar
Requirements 4.2.1.1 and 12.3.3 became mandatory on March 31. Neither mentions quantum computing, but an annual cipher-suite inventory with a response strategy is the groundwork every PQC migration needs.
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