#post-quantum cryptography
10 stories taggedpost-quantum cryptography.
AI Money, Mega-Deals and Quantum Deadlines: The Forces Reshaping Cybersecurity in 2026
Record venture capital, a wave of company takeovers, and a presidential order on quantum encryption are changing the cybersecurity industry faster than most organisations can track.
OpenAI's unreleased 'Astra' model reportedly cracked 10 maths problems that stumped humans for decades
The lab says an internal version of its next big model produced fresh results in geometry, cryptography and group theory, at a compute cost of around $2,000 per problem.
Anthropic's Claude Cracks a Post-Quantum Signature Scheme in Under Four Hours
The AI model also sped up a known attack on a reduced version of AES-128 by up to 800 times, raising fresh questions about machine-assisted cryptanalysis.
Keyfactor Raises Over $1 Billion to Tackle AI and Post-Quantum Security
The investment backs technology that manages digital certificates and cryptographic keys, as companies race to prepare for a generation of threats that today's encryption may not survive.
Microsoft Pulls Post-Quantum Deadline Forward to 2029
Azure CTO Mark Russinovich says the 'risk horizon' has moved. Redmond now wants PQC-ready systems four years ahead of the industry's 2033 target.
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Credentials Are the First Casualty of Q-Day
Captured ciphertext today becomes plaintext tomorrow. Credentials sit at the top of the target list.
White House Orders Federal Agencies to Migrate Cryptography by 2030, Signals Contractor Reckoning
Two executive orders set hard federal deadlines for post-quantum cryptography adoption and launch a government-wide quantum R&D program — with ripple effects for every contractor touching federal networks.
Executive Order 14409 Locks In Federal PQC Deadlines: 2030 for Key Establishment, 2031 for Signatures
The June 22 order sets binding migration dates for high-value assets and high-impact systems, while leaving national security systems on a parallel track.
White House Sets Hard Clock on Post-Quantum Migration for Federal Systems
An executive order mandates that high-value federal assets shift to post-quantum cryptography by 2030–2031. For identity infrastructure, that deadline is closer than it looks.
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Most Organizations Still Aren't Ready for the Quantum Cryptography Shift
NIST published its first three post-quantum standards in 2024. A year later, only 5% of security teams have a defined strategy. The clock is running whether they know it or not.