The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected Post-Quantum to be a part of its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) “Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)” project, supporting it in developing tangible PQC implementations and use cases.
The NCCoE project brings together experts from industry, government, and academia to address the real-world needs of securing complex IT systems and protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure. Participants include Palo Alto Networks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Microsoft and VMWare as well as other vendors who are sharing their expertise in planning for and implementing post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.
Post-Quantum’s selection will see the company playing a central role in ensuring smooth transition and deployment of VPN that will protect us from HNDL attacks, ensuring that backward compatibility is supported, testing different PQC algorithm configurations in hybrid arrangement, and providing in particular unique implementation know-how in securing edge to mobile end-points.
Andersen Cheng, Executive Chairman, Post-Quantum
Our priority over the last few years has been on accelerating real-world implementations. For example, last year a new standard that we authored for a hybrid quantum-safe Virtual Private Networks (VPN) was ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This new standard is now the glue that allows parties using different post-quantum key establishment algorithms to talk with one another, which is particularly important as we enter a situation where different nation states deploy a variety of different algorithms. We are looking forward to sharing implementation knowledge of our protocol and unique know-how in securing mobile end points with partners such as Palo Alto, Microsoft, and AWS, to accomplish an end-to-end secure quantum migration.
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