ISARA Insights Blog


Is Your Cryptographic Infrastructure Healthy?

Philip Lafrance
Feb 08, 2021

What about your organization’s cryptographic infrastructure? Is it healthy? What can enterprises do now to keep theirs in good shape, especially as the industry collectively moves toward post-quantum cryptography?…

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Crypto-pocalypse? Crypto-agility? Expanding Your Quantum Vocabulary in 2021

Philip Lafrance
Jan 25, 2021

Will your organization survive the crypto-pocalypse? “The power of quantum computing brings the day closer when the conventional encryption we all rely on can no longer protect us,” warns Roger A. Grimes,…

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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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RAND Corporation Report: Quantum Threat

Philip Lafrance
Apr 29, 2020

This month the RAND corporation released a new report investigating the quantum threat. The authors consider three key timelines in the coming paradigm shift to quantum-safe cryptography. They investigated…

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Math Paths to Quantum-Safe Security: Isogeny-Based Cryptography

Victoria de Quehen
Jul 27, 2018

One of the most widely deployed public-key cryptographic algorithms is the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange (ECDH). This, as well as most currently used protocols, is vulnerable to attacks using…

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