Secure Communications for Quantum and Beyond: Orchestrated Cryptography for Agility and Policy

Organizations across the public and private sectors depend on the ability to securely communicate data over computer networks. By Shor’s algorithm, a quantum computer of sufficient size can efficiently break public-key algorithms such as RSA, ECDH, and ECDSA which secure these network communications today. As a result, organizations will need to replace all instances of vulnerable cryptography to protect their own and their customers’ data-in-transit. In this chapter, we describe how a decentralized cryptography deployment model complicates the migration to post-quantum and cryptography management more broadly. We then explain how QuSecure is developing a new paradigm of cryptographic orchestration with QuProtect to empower organizations to secure their networks and meet challenges of agility and policy at scale in a dynamic ecosystem of new algorithms, attacks, standards, and requirements.