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Trump ordered work toward a quantum computer for a Department of Energy facility, an updated National Quantum Strategy within 180 days, and at least three quantum sensor projects to field by September 30, 2028.
An ANSSI official told a Paris conference that the agency would stop certifying products without quantum-resistant encryption from 2027, Reuters reported. In its written guidance, ANSSI ties that year to qualification and advises against non-PQC purchases after 2030.
QuEra said Libra will be available on Amazon Braket starting in 2028 and called the machine's specifications projected. Neither QuEra's release nor AWS's blog post gave the number of physical qubits the neutral-atom machine will use.
NIST proposes keeping today's classical PIV keys and adding post-quantum ones beside them. It calls the documents preliminary working materials and is taking comments through a mailing list and GitHub with no closing date.
Let's Encrypt said nothing changes today for its subscribers. It presented both dates as targets and wrote that the transition will take time, with standards and browser root programs still unsettled.
The senator who moved third reading said there was "no direct discussion" of quantum threats at the committee level. Under a separate Treasury Board notice, federal departments must move high-priority systems to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2031.
IonQ's team ran qLDPC, toric, and concatenated codes on one chain of 40 barium ions without moving them. In the best code, logical qubits lasted 3.95 seconds, against 3.84 seconds for the physical qubits in the authors' revised analysis.
Bernstein ran both demonstrations on his own implementation after adding each bug himself. He based his case against deploying ML-DSA alone on a statistical model of how many severe bugs new libraries will ship.
The team measured fewer logical errors in the larger of two codes, built from 64 physical qubits, over up to eight rounds. Over longer runs, the authors concluded only that logical error rates did not grow with code distance.
Jonas Nick of Blockstream called the design a starting point. Only signers that track which one-time keys they have used, such as dedicated signing devices, would produce the smallest signatures. Using the opcode on Bitcoin would require a soft fork.
