NEWS, PERSPECTIVES & HORIZONS

The Problem with Permanence Most organizations treat cryptography like concrete: pour it once, then assume it will hold indefinitely. But what happens when the cement cracks? For decades, this worked. RSA-2048 and AES encryption were reliable enough that few people worried about swapping them out. But we’ve entered an era where cryptographic algorithms have expiration… Read more: Crypto Agility: The Silent Security Revolution

The Looming Horizon In a quiet revolution that few outside the security community are paying attention to, scientists are building machines that could render the encryption protecting our most sensitive data obsolete. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers—quantum computers powerful enough to break the mathematical problems underlying modern encryption—represent perhaps the most fundamental threat to cybersecurity since… Read more: How Quantum Computers Will Reshape Cryptography

Forwards? Here is what most people get wrong: they think building something that lasts requires careful maintenance. They imagine a fortress that must be defended, repaired, updated, constantly tended to against the forces of time and entropy. This is backwards. You’re not creating something that will last. You’re creating something that begins lasting the moment… Read more: The Act of Building Begins Forever