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wolfSSL's optimized ML-KEM code for two processor families compared only part of each incoming ciphertext. In tests on a reused key, Bhabani Sankar Das recovered 98.0% to 98.5% of its secret coefficients. Version 5.9.2 fixes both flaws.
Poseidon was designed to be cheap inside zero-knowledge proofs. Justin Drake attributed the switch to faster proof systems for standard hashes. The hash-based design that used Poseidon has not been deployed on Ethereum.
Google marked post-quantum key exchange as done on its API endpoints and internal service traffic. It set certificate, identity, and hardware milestones through 2028 and said it projects most services will meet their domain dates.
RFC 10024 marks only X25519MLKEM768 of its three hybrid groups as recommended and marks two pre-standard Kyber code points as discouraged. Server authentication, which uses certificate signatures, is unchanged.
The Amazon Web Services researcher labeled his paper a preliminary draft, marked four proofs as sketches, and cited personal communications for its lattice corollary. He described no attack on ML-KEM, ML-DSA, or any NIST parameter set.
The insurer's researchers put the code-breaking machine at roughly 1,250–1,450 logical qubits, against 4,700–7,500 for leading financial applications. The Google researchers they listed as a source reported fewer than 1,200 at one trade-off point.
Seventy-one percent of responding institutions had neither conducted nor planned a test of post-quantum cryptography. The HKMA framed its 2030 goal as an aim for the whole sector and listed four first steps banks can take now.
Managing Director Chia Der Jiun said MAS will issue supervisory expectations later in 2026, with progressive timelines for cryptographic inventories, migration priorities, and the capabilities to migrate. MAS published a consultation paper with proposed timelines on November 6.
Eighty-seven percent of the 1,001 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers polled for DigiCert reported post-quantum plans or work under way. Propeller Insights ran the survey in May, before a U.S. executive order set federal migration deadlines.
EY said the machine will handle sensitive work such as fraud detection and risk management. Its chief innovation officer said the immediate value is not in replacing classical computing and named post-quantum readiness as the near-term focus.
