ISARA Insights Blog


NIST Advances to Selection Round

Paul Lucier
Jul 30, 2020

On July 22nd National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that they have entered the ‘selection’ round in the process of standardizing post-quantum cryptography. If you’re reading this,…

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How to Start Readying Your IT Ecosystem for Quantum Now

Alex Truskovsky
Jun 16, 2020

Quantum computers will deliver tremendous benefits, but they will also be able to break the cryptography underlying public key infrastructure (PKI). Quantum computing will be able to solve very specific…

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Microsoft’s CryptoAPI flaw/CurveBall: a teaser of the quantum threat

Mike Brown
Jan 17, 2020

The National Security Agency recently discovered a major cryptographic flaw in Microsoft’s low-level code within their operating system. This flaw, now known as CurveBall, was found within Windows CryptoAPI…

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Myth-Busting the Quantum Threat: The Top 3 Misconceptions About Quantum-Safe Migrations

Paul Lucier
Jul 23, 2019

Part of our mission at ISARA is to educate and raise awareness of the security risks introduced by large-scale quantum computing. Since I joined ISARA in 2016, I’ve spoken to individuals, enterprises,…

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Top 3 Noteworthy Advances in the Quantum-safe Security Market

Paul Lucier
Jul 02, 2019

Awareness is spreading about the threat that large-scale quantum computing poses to current public key cryptography, and both nation-states and security professionals are taking note.

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