Cloudflare wants to sign the post-quantum web. Bitcoin can’t find a signer.

The post-quantum cryptographic answers are now largely agreed. Applying them — especially to authentication — is the hard part. Cloudflare’s move to become a certificate authority shows one way it gets done for the web. Bitcoin shows why the same answer doesn’t transfer everywhere. And Europe’s €47.5 million quantum-internet bet won’t help anyone migrating before […]

What is NZISM 2.4?

In short NZISM Section 2.4 is the part of the New Zealand Information Security Manual that deals with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). It requires agencies to monitor PQC developments, inventory their cryptographic systems and develop migration plans. No PQC algorithms have yet been approved for NZISM use, and no migration deadline has been set. What Section […]

The paperwork layer

Standfirst: A validated hardware security module, a bill aimed at the electricity grid, and a Finnish research programme pointing at the certificate layer. Three developments in one week say the same thing: the hard part of the post-quantum transition is no longer cryptographic. A fourth — a vendor blog doing the rounds again — is […]