Post-Quantum Federated Learning: Secure and Scalable Threat Intelligence for Collaborative Cyber Defense

Collaborative threat intelligence via federated learning FL faces critical risks from quantum computing, which can compromise classical encryption methods. This study proposes a quantum-secure FL framework using post-quantum cryptography PQC to protect cross-organizational data sharing. We expose...

PQC-LEO: An Evaluation Framework for Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms

Advances in quantum computing threaten digital communication security by undermining the foundations of current public-key cryptography through Shor's quantum algorithm. This has driven the development of Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC, a new set of algorithms resistant to quantum attacks. While...

Preparing for the Quantum Era: Post-Quantum Cryptography Webinar for Security Leaders

Most organizations assume encrypted data is safe. But many attackers are already preparing for a future where today’s encryption can be broken. Instead of trying to decrypt information now, they are collecting encrypted data and storing it so it can be decrypted later using quantum computers. Thi...

Google Develops Merkle Tree Certificates to Enable Quantum-Resistant HTTPS in Chrome

Google has announced a new program in its Chrome browser to ensure that HTTPS certificates are secure against the future risk posed by quantum computers. "To ensure the scalability and efficiency of the ecosystem, Chrome has no immediate plan to add traditional X.509 certificates containing...

Post-Quantum Cryptography Beyond TLS: Remain Quantum Safe

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Power Network SCADA Quantum Communications: A Comparison of BB84, B92, E91, and SGS04 Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

The current state, emerging trends, and practical challenges of optical fiber-based power network SCADA quantum communication must be addressed to fully utilise the technological platform's potential in real-world power system SCADA communications involving massive volumes of real-time data, as...

Expert Recommends: Prepare for PQC Right Now

Introduction: Steal It Today, Break It in a Decade Digital evolution is unstoppable, and though the pace may vary, things tend to fall into place sooner rather than later. That, of course, applies to adversaries as well. The rise of ransomware and cyber extortion generated funding for a complex a...

When Security Meets Usability: An Empirical Investigation of Post-Quantum Cryptography APIs

Advances in quantum computing increasingly threaten the security and privacy of data protected by current cryptosystems, particularly those relying on public-key cryptography. In response, the international cybersecurity community has prioritized the implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptography PQ...

Practical Quantum Tokens: Challenges and Perspectives

The concept of quantum tokens dates back alongside quantum cryptography to Stephen Wiesner's seminal work in 19831. Already this initial work proposes society-relevant applications such as secure quantum banknotes, which can be exchanged between a bank and a customer. This quantum currency is bas...

Entropy Bounds Via Hypothesis Testing and Its Applications to Two-Way Key Distillation in Quantum Cryptography

Quantum key distribution QKD achieves information-theoretic security, without relying on computational assumptions, by distributing quantum states. To establish secret bits, two honest parties exploit key distillation protocols over measurement outcomes resulting after the the distribution of...

Fundamentals, Recent Advances, and Challenges Regarding Cryptographic Algorithms for the Quantum Computing Era

This book arises from the need to provide a clear and up-to-date overview of the impacts of quantum computing on cryptography. The goal is to provide a reference in Portuguese for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students in the field of data security and cryptography. Throughout the chapter...

Quantum Encryption Resilience Score (QERS) for MQTT, HTTP, and HTTPS under Post-Quantum Cryptography in Computer, IoT, and IIoT Systems

Post-quantum cryptography PQC introduces significant computational and communication overhead, which poses challenges for resource-constrained computer systems, Internet of Things IoT, and Industrial IoT IIoT devices. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the Quantum Encryption...

Oracle Linux 10 : net-snmp (ELSA-2026-0668)

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-0668 advisory. 1:5.9.4-15.0.1.2 - fix error index value when snmpget is used a proxy pass Orabug: 35010262 1:5.9.4-15.2 - fix out of bound access RHEL-137497 1:5.9.4-15.1 -...

Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Learn what you can do today to prepare for Q-Day...

Quantum Secure Biometric Authentication in Decentralised Systems

Biometric authentication has become integral to digital identity systems, particularly in smart cities where it en-ables secure access to services across governance, trans-portation, and public infrastructure. Centralised archi-tectures, though widely used, pose privacy and scalabil-ity challenge...

A Statistical Side-Channel Risk Model for Timing Variability in Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography

Timing side-channels are an important threat to cryptography that still needs to be addressed in implementations, and the advent of post-quantum cryptography raises this issue because the lattice-based schemes may produce secret-dependent timing variability with the help of complex arithmetic and...

Post-Quantum Cryptography in the 5G Core

In this work, the conventional cryptographic algorithms used in the 5G Core are replaced with post-quantum alternatives and the practical impact of this transition is evaluated. Using a simulation environment, we model the registration and deregistration of varying numbers of user equipments UEs...

Quantigence: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Quantum Security Research

Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers CRQCs pose a structural threat to the global digital economy. Algorithms like Shor's factoring and Grover's search threaten to dismantle the public-key infrastructure PKI securing sovereign communications and financial transactions. While the timeline...

Digital Signatures: Traditional Vs. Post-Quantum Cryptographic Mechanisms

Secure your connections against quantum threats. Learn about post-quantum cryptography and digital signatures...

Defend Post-Quantum Cryptography's “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” with WAAP

Prepare for a quantum-safe future. Learn how Akamai App & API Protector helps stop the data leaks that fuel “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks...