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Post-quantum cryptography
Dan Goodin reported in Ars Technica that Google and Cloudflare have accelerated their post-quantum cryptography readiness timelines by five years, expecting full readiness by 2029. The Department of Defense has set a similar deadline, while many other organizations in the story are targeting 2031 to 2035.
Consultant Brian LaMacchia, who previously managed Microsoft’s PQC transition, said “[E]ven if the chance of building a CRQC by, say, 2030 is very low (say 5 percent), the downside risk is huge. Combine that with very long transition engineering times, and you should have started already.”
Read the full story in Ars Technica. Cloudflare also published a blog post on the change.
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IBM and UIUC
IBM and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced a renewal of their $200 million Discovery Accelerator Institute. Initially focused on AI, supercomputing, and materials science, the partnership will expand to quantum computing and information science research. It will include access to IBM quantum systems for supercomputer users at UIUC’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Read the story in Crain’s Chicago Business.
SBQuantum
Canada’s SBQuantum announced that it has established a sister company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called ZeroDrift Technologies. The companies make diamond-based magnetometers for navigation and threat detection. The expansion is driven by an additional $4 million in venture capital and is expected to simplify transactions with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and other U.S. contractors.
Image from SBQuantum.
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