The Impact of Quantum Computing on Cryptography (2025).
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/technology/display/al_impact_quantum_computing_cryptography
#technology #computing #security #java #QuantumComputing #QuantumCryptography #Cryptography #SPHINCS #CRYSTALSDilithium #CRYSTALSKyber #SLHDSA #MLDSA #MLKEM
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#NIST Selects #HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post #Quantum #Encryption
HQC is the latest algorithm chosen by NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography project, which has overseen efforts since 2016 to head off potential threats from #quantumcomputers. HQC will take its place alongside the four algorithms NIST selected previously. Three of those algorithms have been incorporated into finished standards, including #MLKEM, which forms the core of the standard called #FIPS203.
https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/03/12/nist-selects-hqc-as-fifth-algorithm-for-post-quantum-encryption/
Харденинг strongSwan на всякий постквантовый
strongSwan — опенсорсная имплементация IPsec, фреймворка VPN. Несмотря на полувековой стаж, проект продолжает развиваться: последняя на сегодня версия приложения вышла в декабре. У него подробная документация , есть блог с CVE и публичная база тестов . По полезной пропускной способности, задержке и утилизации CPU strongSwan превосходит Wireguard, но остаётся в тени — из-за сложности и малой пригодности для обхода блокировок. Зато перед теми, кто не ленится, он открывает широкий простор для экспериментов.
Реализация постквантовых алгоритмов на Java и Go
В последнее время в СМИ много публикаций о новых квантовых компьютерах, которые представляют угрозу для современной криптографии. Например, недавно Google сообщила о разработке квантового процессора Willow , который в специально сформулированной задаче превышает производительность самого мощного суперкомпьютера в септиллион раз (септиллион = 10 25 ). Хотя квантовая криптография быстро развивается, ей ещё далеко до того, чтобы угрожать современной криптографии. Более того, разработан ряд постквантовых алгоритмов и шифров, которые устойчивы к квантовым вычислениям.
So looking through some old projects I’ve had lying around, I ran into something I started (and never even really wrote anything) about steganography. This led me down a bit of rabbit-hole and I now have a slightly better understanding of some components of ML-KEM (aka. #Kyber).
Both the public key and the ciphertext are for the most part long sequences of integers modulo 3329 that are effectively indistinguishable from random integers out of that range.
Of course they are obvious to distinguish from random bitstrings, but the easiest way to fix that would be to just view them as numbers in base 3329, re-encode them to base 2 and work from there… So that might be one thing I could look into now.
The alternative is to see whether there is a sufficiently hard to detect way to change some of the representatives of the field-elements… It might be easier to implement if, if not easier from a mathematical perspective, but would also let the possibility of slightly compressing the public-key and ciphertext by about 2.5% in length lie on the table.
In any case, this is something that might be worthwhile for practical use-cases… 
#cryptography #pqc #pqcrypto #steganography #crypto #MLKEM
As the world moves rapidly to adopt Post Quantum Cryptography, it would be REALLY helpful if the implementation instructions were krystal [sic] clear.
But seriously, this is something that needs to be done properly at the outset.
And for the next few iterations of PQCs that we will see over the next few years.
Accelerating The Adoption of Post-Quantum Cryptography with PHP
https://paragonie.com/blog/2025/02/accelerating-adoption-post-quantum-cryptography
We've released #PuTTY version 0.83.
This release is mostly full of bug fixes following up the new development in 0.82. Most significantly, 'psftp -b' was completely broken, and now works again. Also various assertion failures, crashes and hangs. On the Unix side, we've fixed an intermittent bug making the keys on the small keypad above the arrows (Home, End, Ins, Del etc) not work in the terminal.
We've also extended our #quantumsafe cryptography support, by supporting #MLKEM as a key exchange option, in addition to NTRU Prime which we already had.
I've made a Firefox browser extension/add-on that tells you whether the web page you're looking at was accessed using quantum-safe security or not, i.e. whether ML-KEM was used by TLS when setting up the HTTPS session. (Sorry, Chrome browsers not supported due to technical limitations.) It's surprising which sites are already using quantum-safe security, and which are not. See https://farphase.com/quantum-safety-browser-extension/ #quantum #pqc #quantumsafe #mlkem #firefox
Are you ready for the post-quantum era?
Test your PQC readiness now! Our new website, featuring our formally verified libcrux crypto library, makes it easy to see if your browser is future-proof.
Head over to https://buff.ly/4ak1LB6 to test your browser and learn more about post-quantum cryptography.
bertie.cryspen.com now available with mlkem TLS and Bertie
We've launched bertie.cryspen.com with mlkem TLS, powered by our Bertie TLS 1.3 implementation. This provides a secure and efficient endpoint for your applications.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/3ZOiJT3
huh, that's neat. just discovered @cryspen's libcrux: https://github.com/cryspen/libcrux
i found it while looking for implementations of ml-kem
Google Chrome Switches to ML-KEM for Post-Quantum Cryptography Defense
https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/google-chrome-switches-to-ml-kem-for.html #Google #Webbrowser #Browser #Chrome #ML_KEM #MLKEM
Постквантовый TLS внедряют уже сейчас
Квантовый компьютер, который будет решать криптографические задачи (cryptographically-relevant quantum computer или CRQC в терминологии АНБ ), пока далёк от реальности. Но проблема в том, что создатели такого компьютера вряд ли сразу сообщат миру о его существовании, а могут тайно воспользоваться возможностью взлома мировой криптографической системы. Хуже всего, что с появлением CRQC можно будет расшифровать весь зашифрованный трафик, перехваченный и сохранённый в предыдущие годы (то есть сейчас). Записью и сохранением зашифрованного трафика сейчас занимаются хостинг-провайдеры, операторы мобильной связи, интернет-провайдеры и спецслужбы (стратегия harvest now, decrypt later ).
(plz hire me) 
