encryption

The Day the Math Got Faster

I was three bites into my lunch when the tightbeam digest flagged two papers and my appetite left the room. Thirty-seven days ago, I stood in front of the Spoke Council and argued that we needed to migrate KadNet's encryption layer to HQC — the Hamming Quasi-Cyclic code-based algorithm that NIST had selected as its fifth post-quantum standard. Twenty-three of thirty-one critical pathways were vulnerable. The Council approved the migration. We did it in eleven days. I slept approximately ninetee