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Quantum-Safe Security Governance with the Cloud Controls Matrix

Quantum-Safe Security Governance with the Cloud Controls Matrix
Release Date: 07/30/2024

For the last decade or so there have been major developments in the quantum and post-quantum cryptography spaces. The time has come for enterprise IT depa...

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Quantum-Safe Security Working Group Charter 2023

Quantum-Safe Security Working Group Charter 2023
Release Date: 03/10/2023

The focus of the Quantum‐Safe Security Working Group is on cryptographic methods that will remain safe after the widespread availability of the quantum co...

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Getting Quantum Safe in 5 Slides

Getting Quantum Safe in 5 Slides
Release Date: 04/19/2022

This is a set of 5 high-level slides about how to approach quantum-safe security. The goal is briefly to outline the problem, possible solutions, next ste...

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Blockchains in the Quantum Era - Chinese Translation

Blockchains in the Quantum Era - Chinese Translation
Release Date: 02/06/2022

This localized version of this publication was produced from the original source material through the efforts of chapters and volunteers but the translate...

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Practical Preparations for the Post-Quantum World

Practical Preparations for the Post-Quantum World
Release Date: 10/19/2021

This document discusses the cybersecurity challenges and recommended steps to reduce likely new risks due to quantum information sciences. This paper was ...

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Confidence in Post Quantum Algorithms

Confidence in Post Quantum Algorithms
Release Date: 02/25/2021

NIST made the recent announcement of its Round 3 candidates for future post-quantum cryptography or quantum safe standards. As the world prepares to transiti...

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Blockchains in the Quantum Era

Blockchains in the Quantum Era
Release Date: 02/05/2021

Digital Ledger Technologies (DLT) such as blockchain are being deployed as part of diverse applications that span multiple market segments. Application devel...

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 Quantum-Safe Security Working Group Charter

Quantum-Safe Security Working Group Charter
Release Date: 07/07/2020

The focus of the Quantum‐Safe Security Working Group is on cryptographic methods that will remain safe after the widespread availability of the quantum compu...

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Mitigating the Quantum Threat with Hybrid Cryptography

Mitigating the Quantum Threat with Hybrid Cryptography
Release Date: 06/17/2019

Focus of this document is on four hybrid cryptographic schemes which provide both classical security of classical crypto and the quantum security of a quantu...

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Preparing Enterprises for the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Threats

Preparing Enterprises for the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Threats
Release Date: 05/23/2019

Quantum computing, while expected to help make many advancements, will also break the existing asymmetric-key cryptosystems, thus endangering our security in...

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The State of Post-Quantum Cryptography

The State of Post-Quantum Cryptography
Release Date: 05/23/2018

Most people pay little attention to the lock icon on their browser’s address bar that signifies a secure connection called HTTPS. This connection establishes...

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A Day Without Safe Cryptography

A Day Without Safe Cryptography
Release Date: 04/19/2018

Over the past fifty years, the digital age has sparked the creation of a remarkable infrastructure through which a nearly infinite variety of digital transac...

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Quantum-Safe Security Awareness Survey

Quantum-Safe Security Awareness Survey
Release Date: 01/26/2018

Quantum computing threatens the security of public key cryptography, which underlies our global digital communications infrastructure. While many significant...

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Applied Quantum Safe Security

Applied Quantum Safe Security
Release Date: 03/13/2017

Over the last year or so, the perceived threat of the quantum computer to modern cryptographic standards in widespread use has increased dramatically. Govern...

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Quantum Safe Security Glossary

Quantum Safe Security Glossary
Release Date: 01/24/2017

The Quantum-Safe Security (QSS) Working Group was formed to address key generation and transmission methods and to help the industry understand quantum-safe ...

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Quantum Random Number Generators

Quantum Random Number Generators
Release Date: 06/09/2016

A random number is generated by a process whose outcome is unpredictable, and which cannot be reliably reproduced. Randomness, quantitatively measured by ent...

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What is Post-Quantum Cryptography

What is Post-Quantum Cryptography
Release Date: 09/28/2015

Most people pay little attention to the lock icon on their browser address bar that signifies a secure HTTPS connection. They don’t realize that there is an ...

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What is Quantum Key Distribution?

What is Quantum Key Distribution?
Release Date: 08/05/2015

The security of QKD relies on fundamental laws of nature, which are invulnerable to increasing computational power, new attack algorithms or quantum computer...

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What is Quantum Safe Security

What is Quantum Safe Security
Release Date: 05/19/2015

An overview of current cryptographic techniques being used, proactive defenses, and the threats and impact of quantum computing.

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