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Mainstream catching on, slowly

post-quantum cryptology
May 01, 2025•2 min read

In the last entry we announced the inclusion of post-quantum cryptographic protocols in the latest release of OpenSSL. This has a significance beyond inclusion in a highly-respected open source project. Microsoft both contributes to and uses OpenSSL in its public offerings and would not do so if it didn't consider Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) a necessity for them. Of course it is, but my point is that they understand this!

They are not alone, even among the mainstream. AWS has long had post-quantum cryptography available in its cloud services, while IBM and Google have at least made digital signatures quantum-resistant in their cloud services, with Google going the extra step of encrypting emails in Gmail with PQC.

IBM has not stopped either. For those seeking to upgrade their IT completely there are IBM products to help you, Guardium will find your outdated cryptolibraries, by detecting the lines of code on your system which call them. For a little more, Quantum Safe Explorer will detect which encodings are being used for your incoming and outgoing traffic, and for protecting those delicate legacy systems which you can't afford to disrupt and are likely to break under change, Quantum Safe Remediator will cocoon them with an intermediary layer which is PQC to the outside but uses conventional encryption on the inside.

If VPNs are your thing then a quantum-resistant one is available from internet company, Verizon. For openOS enthusiasts, The RedHat Encryption Layer will be PQC capable from version 10, due this year. It will not be the default setting as RedHat is waiting to see how the conventions turn out. No doubt this will change soon enough.

This post deliberately focuses on companies with a conventional encryption heritage who are getting themselves up to standard, hence the slew of worthy but inherently PQC companies and their valuable contributions will have to wait another post!

I have one last company to mention. Kuchoriya TechSoft, already established in app development, website development and UI/UX design, has entered into a partnership with us to make quantum-resistant products available to those with the foresight to want them.

PQC has long spread beyond the cliques of PQC-developers and far-sighted cybersecurity experts.

Michael Walker is a theoretical physicist with a long, twisted career through a multitude of fields beginning with particle physics, passing through computer modelling, data science and machine learning, epidemiology and, most recently, quantum computing. Now he leverages that expertise to warn and assist against the upcoming danger posed by quantum computers to modern encryption and the immediacy of harvest now, decrypt later.

Michael Walker

Michael Walker is a theoretical physicist with a long, twisted career through a multitude of fields beginning with particle physics, passing through computer modelling, data science and machine learning, epidemiology and, most recently, quantum computing. Now he leverages that expertise to warn and assist against the upcoming danger posed by quantum computers to modern encryption and the immediacy of harvest now, decrypt later.

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