Archives May 2026

Quantum-Safe 6G: the protocol bill, and the photons coming up behind it

6G standardisation is still years away, but the cryptographic choices that will shape it are being made now. Every Five Eyes PQC migration deadline falls before the first commercial 6G radios are expected. A new paper from Toshiba’s Bristol research lab benchmarks how the NIST-standardised primitives behave on actual telecom-relevant hardware — desktop-class, ARM-class edge, […]