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NIST, the NSA, Britain's NCSC, the EU, Canada, and Australia all ask organizations to start post-quantum migration now. None claims a code-breaking quantum computer exists or gives it a known date. Their deadlines do not depend on either claim.
Elisity sells software that limits which users and devices on a network can reach each other. IonQ said it would gain new channels for its post-quantum and quantum key distribution products through Elisity's more than 100 customer deployments.
Europol's cybercrime center named wallet signing keys as the main quantum exposure for cryptocurrencies. In a second report with a Madrid university, Europol rated government data at high risk from harvest-now, decrypt-later collection.
Under NIS2 and DORA, regulated entities must keep cryptography policies that track the state of the art and advances in codebreaking. The EU's 2030 and 2035 post-quantum dates remain recommendations, and the proposed NIS2 amendment has not passed.
None of the 24 agencies GAO audited had fully carried out three preparatory steps for post-quantum migration. At six sampled agencies, none could document the algorithms listed for every sampled system.
The cabinet expects a quantum computer able to break public-key encryption between 2029 and 2035. Ministries are to fund the migration from existing budgets at first. The cabinet will adjust its ambitions if it cannot find the money.
NSA kept the five limitations it listed in 2020 and added an argument that QKD security established at certification can degrade. It dropped a line saying it did not expect to certify or approve QKD products.
No key for a real Classic McEliece parameter set has been publicly recovered. Even with a memory charge, one researcher's estimate is still below the claimed levels. BSI says hybrid deployments remain at least as secure as their classical half.
Allies approved NATO's first quantum technology roadmap on July 30. In its public summary, NATO dated activities through 2029, from sea trials of quantum navigation sensors to an Alliance quantum standards roadmap.
Most first-day findings were bugs in submitted code, found with AI assistance. On day two, other researchers posted attacks on designs including Tins, Facto-DSA, MoFang, and Neulaser. None of the attacked designs has been standardized or deployed.
