ISARA Insights Blog


How to Manage Your Cryptographic “Garden”

Paul Lucier
Jul 13, 2021

For gardeners, summer is the growing season. As any gardener knows, a successful garden requires work throughout the year. In the autumn, you tidy up last year’s scraggly plants and you mulch. In the winter,…

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NIST Round 3 Update

Paul Lucier
Jun 07, 2021

In “The Road Ahead: Post Quantum Cryptography” [1], we discussed the great progress that has been happening in the world of standardization for Post Quantum Cryptography. And on June 7, this world will…

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“Cryptography is Everywhere:”
Trends for 2021

Paul Lucier
Nov 23, 2020

“Cryptography is effectively everywhere,” states Mike Brown, CTO of ISARA. A foundational technology in almost everything we do today — banking, working, grocery shopping, streaming videos, traveling.…

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US Government’s Deep Dive into China and Why the Quantum Threat Matters

Paul Lucier
Oct 07, 2020

China continues to make significant advances in quantum science and with quantum communication networks. Do these developments pose a threat we should be worried about? The US Congress thinks so. On…

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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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