#QuantumSecurity

Xiphera & Crypto Quantique Announce Partnership

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November 7, 2024 at 05:47PM Xiphera and Crypto Quantique announced a partnership to enhance cryptographic security for IoT devices. Their collaboration combines Xiphera’s nQrux® Hardware Trust Engines with Crypto Quantique’s QDID PUF technology, providing quantum-resilient security and unique unclonable identities for semiconductor chips, ensuring protection against future quantum attacks. **Meeting Takeaways:** 1. **Partnership Announcement:** – … Read more

NIST Finalizes Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

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August 13, 2024 at 04:49PM The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published three new encryption algorithms as part of its post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization project to enhance global cybersecurity. FIPS 203 focuses on general encryption using CRYSTALS-Kyber, while FIPS 204 and 205 aim to protect digital signatures using CRYSTALS-Dilithium and Sphincs+, respectively. NIST … Read more

KyberSlash attacks put quantum encryption projects at risk

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January 7, 2024 at 03:37PM The Kyber key encapsulation mechanism, including its official implementation CRYSTALS-Kyber, has been found vulnerable to flaws known collectively as KyberSlash, allowing the recovery of secret keys. Timing-based attacks and patches for KyberSlash1 and KyberSlash2 have been identified, affecting various projects, with efforts underway to address the issue. The impact varies … Read more