Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key

Aug 12, 2026 - 09:15
Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key

In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break old size assumptions in IPsec, SSH, TLS and libp2p, why migrating user keys makes blockchains hard to upgrade, and what a silent quantum break would look like from outside. He also gives the argument for funding … More

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