Zoom Adopts NIST-Approved Post-Quantum End-to-End Encryption for Meetings

Popular enterprise services provider Zoom has announced the rollout of post-quantum end-to-end encryption E2EE for Zoom Meetings, with support for Zoom Phone and Zoom Rooms coming in the future. "As adversarial threats become more sophisticated, so does the need to safeguard user data," the compa...

New Lattice Cryptanalytic Technique

A new paper presents a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving certain hard lattice problems. This could be a big deal for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, since many of them base their security on hard lattice problems. A few things to note. One, this paper has not yet been peer...

Why Apple added protection against quantum computing when quantum computing doesn’t even exist yet

Apple released a new update for nearly all its devices that provides an all-new type of encryption for its iMessages to the point that, in theory, iMessages are now protected against attacks from quantum computers. This is a little tricky because, as weve covered before, quantum computers dont...

Apple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage

Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022. Theres a lot of detail in the Apple blog post, and more in Douglas Stabilas security analysis. I am of two minds about this...

Apple Unveils PQ3 Protocol - Post-Quantum Encryption for iMessage

Apple has announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 that it said will be integrated into iMessage to secure the messaging platform against future attacks arising from the threat of a practical quantum computer. "With compromise-resilient encryption and extensive defenses...

Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update

Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage...

Improving the Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Public-Key Algorithms

The winner of the Best Paper Award at Crypto this year was a significant improvement to lattice-based cryptanalysis. This is important, because a bunch of NISTs post-quantum options base their security on lattice problems. I worry about standardizing on post-quantum algorithms too quickly. We are...

Post-quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem

filippo.io/mlkem768 is a pure-Go implementation of ML-KEM-768 optimized for correctness and readability. ML-KEM formerly known as Kyber, renamed because we can't have nice things is a post-quantum key exchange mechanism in the process of being standardized by NIST and adopted by most of the...

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:0005-1 Security update for putty

This update for putty fixes the following issues: putty was updated to to release 0.80: Fix CVE-2023-48795 boo1218128 - Update to release 0.79 Terminal mouse tracking: support for mouse movements which are not drags, and support for horizontal scroll events e.g. generated by trackpads. Fixed: PuT...

certificate_authority (=0.1.0), citadel_crypt (>=0.4.0 <=0.7.0) +13 more potentially affected by unknown CVE via pqc_kyber (>=0.4.0 <=0.7.1)

pqckyber CARGO version =0.4.0, =0.4.0, =0.3.0, =0.1.0-alpha, =1.3.0, =0.1.0, =11.0.0, =0.1.0, =9.0.0, =0.3.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.19, =0.1.24 - sare-core =0.1.0 Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:RUSTSEC-2023-0079...

Enough Polynomials and Linear Algebra to Implement Kyber

I was once talking with a mathematician and trying to explain elliptic curve cryptography. Eventually, something clicked and they went "oh, that! I think there was a chapter about it in the book. You made a whole field out of it?" Yes, in cryptography we end up focusing on a very narrow slice of...

Starting your journey to become quantum-safe

There’s no doubt we are living through a time of rapid technological change. Advances in ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence transform nearly every aspect of work and life. As the world moves forward with new advancements and distributed technologies, so too does the need to understand...

Starting your journey to become quantum-safe

There’s no doubt we are living through a time of rapid technological change. Advances in ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence transform nearly every aspect of work and life. As the world moves forward with new advancements and distributed technologies, so too does the need to understand...

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Finally Real in Consumer Apps?

Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it's keeping them up tonight. Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to protect their fundamental...

Signal Messenger Introduces PQXDH Quantum-Resistant Encryption

Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman X3DH specification to Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman PQXDH. "With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of protection against the...

CISA, NSA, and NIST Publish Factsheet on Quantum Readiness

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA and National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST released a joint factsheet, Quantum-Readiness: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC, to inform organizations—especially those that support...

You Can’t Rush Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards

I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards. This process has been going on since 2016, and since that time there has been a huge increase in quantum technology and an equally large increase in quantum understandi...

NIST Draft Document on Post-Quantum Cryptography Guidance

NIST has released a draft of Special Publication1800-38A: "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for Considering the Implementation and Adoption of Quantum Safe Cryptography." Its only four pages long, and it doesnt have a lot of detail--more "volumes" are coming, with more...

Akamai and the Adoption of Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Improve Post-Quantum Cryptography Security with CSPM

Gain valuable insight into the emerging world of post-quantum computing and how a security posture management CSPM can bolster your post quantum cryptography defenses...