Keeping Data and Data Processing Secure, IBM Forges Ahead With Both and It’s Quantum Safe
IBM Helps Prepare Clients for Next Generation Encryption Technology Today [December 17, 2020], IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security launched a new service that allows companies to experiment with fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) – an emerging technology designed to allow data to remain encrypted even while being processed or analyzed in cloud or third-party environments. The new […]
RIKEN Physcists Push Closer to Skyrmions as Computing Bits and Data Storage Method
RIKEN Physcists Push Closer to Skyrmions as Computing Bits and Data Storage Method Skyrmions seen in a kagome lattice Magnetic vortices have been made and seen in a crystal with a special structure Figure 1: Electron microscopy image showing a skyrmion lattice in a crystal with an inversion center. The square indicated by the dashed […]
Our Quantum Cybersecurity
Our Quantum Cybersecurity This work covers a lot of ground concerning the advent of quantum computing and the threat to cybersecurity. Worth the effort to read and re-kindle some of the industry, government and academic initiatives and organizations tackling the issue. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. Inside the race to quantum-proof our vital infrastructure Excerpts […]
Trapping Photons in a Two-Dimensional System May Lead to Quantum Calculations and Quantum Simulations
Trapping Photons in a Two-Dimensional System May Lead to Quantum Calculations and Quantum Simulations Massive photons in an artificial magnetic field Excerpts and salient points ~ + An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system—a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal—in which they trapped photons. As the […]
Encryption is the Engine; Data is the Oil; Quantum Computers are the Nails in the Road
Encryption is the Engine; Data is the Oil; Quantum Computers are the Nails in the Road Quantum supremacy’ and the threat it poses to data storage, digital economy Excerpts and salient points ~ + End-to-end encryption, the one employed by messaging platforms like WhatsApp, are considered secure as it is difficult to decrypt the coded […]
Overview and Update on the NIST Post-quantum Computing Effort
Overview and Update on the NIST Post-quantum Computing Effort If you have been out-of-sync with the NIST effort, the full work is worth the view. See source below. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. How the United States Is Developing Post-Quantum Cryptography Excerpts and salient points ~ + When practical quantum computing finally arrives, it will […]
Discussion of Cryptography, the Quantum Computing Threat, and What NIST Is Doing for Us
Discussion of Cryptography, the Quantum Computing Threat, and What NIST Is Doing for Us Cryptographers scramble to protect the internet from attackers armed with quantum computers Excerpts and salient points ~ + A full-fledged quantum computer is still years, if not decades, away. But developers have long thought that its killer app will be decoding […]
$tepping Towards Affordable Quantum Computing; Is it Even Possible?
$tepping Towards Affordable Quantum Computing; Is it Even Possible? Another possibility of developing coherent systems with silicon. Qubit. Significant step towards affordable quantum computing Excerpts and salient points ~ + A team of scientists at the University of Tsukuba are studying a novel process for creating coherent lattice waves inside silicon crystals using ultrashort laser […]
Lattice-based Quantum-resistant Algorithm & Chip Fits IoT Nodes
Lattice-based Quantum-resistant Algorithm & Chip Fits IoT Nodes. Engineers from MIT have reported the creation of an encryption system that performs one of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quantum-resistant algorithms currently under study. Further, the algorithm is contained in “a chip small enough and energy-efficient enough to guard battery-powered nodes on […]
Quantum-resistant Cryptography: Lattice Cryptography Now Needed or Needed Now?
Quantum-resistant Cryptography: Lattice Cryptography Now Needed. While the U.S. government is not-funding certain “non-essential” aspects of government at present, the NIST quantum-resistant algorithm ‘challenge’ is on a temporary hold. The issue at stake is the collaborative development of quantum computing resistant algorithms: Algorithms and protocols which should be able to resist quantum computing attacks against existing […]