PQC in Plaintext: Google Cloud’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap

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Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Google for a decade, and we’ve dedicated ourselves to help developers by advancing open standards that can benefit everyone. As post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has matured, we’ve been rolling it out in our infrastructure for internal and customer-facing services.

Today, we're sharing our updated Google Cloud roadmap to migrate to PQC by 2029.

Our strategy: Secure by design

We’ve based our PQC migration strategy on the Google Quantum Threat Model, prioritizing protection across three key domains:

  • Mitigating Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL) risks: Protecting today's encrypted data from being harvested and decrypted by a future quantum computer.
  • Ensuring integrity against forgery: Strengthening digital signatures to prevent attackers from falsifying data and identity.
  • Enhancing foundational capabilities for cryptographic agility: Building flexible systems that can easily adopt new cryptographic standards with minimal engineering...

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