Cryptography

  • When Cryptography Depends on Noise, Not Data: The Hidden Risk in Quantum-Safe Systems

    When Cryptography Depends on Noise, Not Data: The Hidden Risk in Quantum-Safe Systems

    Quantum-safe cryptography is often promoted as the long-term shield against quantum attacks, but a critical blind spot is rarely discussed: some of these schemes fundamentally rely on noise and noise is a physical phenomenon, not a mathematical one.Once your security depends on unpredictable errors, anyone who can control those errors can start bending the…

  • Quantum Vulnerabilities in Today’s Cryptography

    Quantum Vulnerabilities in Today’s Cryptography

    A Historical Perspective and a Forward-Looking Defense Strategy For decades, modern cryptography has relied on mathematical problems assumed to be computationally infeasible for classical computers. Algorithms like RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) derive their security from the hardness of factoring large integers or solving discrete logarithms. This design has worked because no…

  • Physics vs Code: Why Google’s “Quantum Money” Challenges the Blockchain Paradigm

    Physics vs Code: Why Google’s “Quantum Money” Challenges the Blockchain Paradigm

    For the past decade, trust on the internet has been built on code. Cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and zero-knowledge proofs all rely on the hardness of certain mathematical problems. If you can’t solve them, you can’t cheat. But this foundation has a weakness: it assumes computing power grows slowly and predictably. Quantum computing breaks that assumption.…

  • Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT what they are, why they matter, and how to defend against them

    Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT what they are, why they matter, and how to defend against them

    Side-channel attacks are the ugly truth most developers don’t want to face: they extract secrets without breaking crypto math or getting privileged access — by observing physical or microarchitectural side effects (timing, power consumption, EM emissions, cache behavior, sensors, etc.). On constrained devices like phones and IoT nodes this problem is worse because hardware…

  • Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Final Digital Defense Line

    Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Final Digital Defense Line

    The rapid progress of quantum computing has forced a major shift in the foundations of modern cybersecurity. Today’s most widely used cryptographic systems — RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) — were designed under the assumption that certain mathematical problems require an impractical amount of time to solve. Quantum computers break that assumption.…