Decades-old cryptography faces quantum threat, demanding new "post-quantum" algorithms for the digital age.
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Over the past 30 years, cryptography has been very static, with only a handful of new algorithms introduced. As we look forward, the threats of quantum computing demand an entirely new set of “post-quantum” cryptographic algorithms to replace the algorithms that have been the foundation for the explosive growth of the Internet and the digital age.
Which post-quantum algorithms will stand the test of time and which will be well-suited to particular applications remains to be seen, all of which ultimately means that the future of cryptography is going to be uncertain and highly dynamic.
What isn’t uncertain is the importance of cryptography in the world today and in the future. Protecting identities, data, transactions, and devices, cryptography is the critical substructure woven intimately into the fabric of the Internet and every organization’s digital landscape. Cryptography is the engine driving the digital age.
Going forward, organizations need the ability to change their cryptography policies and use of cryptographic algorithms in a timely, efficient, and secure manner. This is the goal of policy-driven, agile cryptography management, and this is what InfoSec Global’s AgileSec™ Platform offers today.
Historically, software developers could select from a small set of standard algorithms to achieve their cryptography objectives. In many historical cases, software and hardware solutions did not even offer the ability for customers to select cryptographic algorithms.
On August 13 2024, NIST has standardized a family of new algorithms that are believed capable of withstanding the threats of quantum computing. Particularly given that no quantum computers exist to verify these new algorithms, and verification of new cryptographic algorithms is normally a time-based process anyway, we cannot know which algorithms will last for the long term and much work remains to determine which of them will be best-suited for the wide variety of applications in use today. NIST is also continuing to work and standardize additional post-quantum algorithms. Consequently, software and hardware security solutions will need to offer customers a set of cryptographic algorithms together with the ability for customers to easily select and modify the algorithms that meet the organization’s policy on an application-by-application basis.
The magnitude of change required for solutions to offer customers a flexible set of cryptographic algorithms is substantial and should not be underestimated. For many reasons, including the widespread use of open-source software, cryptography today is statically and deeply integrated into applications across the digital landscape.
While sets of algorithms are mandatory for the future of cryptography, just having sets of algorithms in applications is not enough to achieve agile cryptography. Crypto-agility requires an efficient, secure method for managing the algorithms to be used by applications. Efficiency is important because of the need to deal with any vulnerabilities in cryptography quickly – in minutes or hours, not in days or weeks (or longer). And, given the variability in performance, memory usage, and key sizes for quantum-ready cryptographic algorithms, different types of applications will likely require different sets of algorithms – meaning, there will be a need for different cryptographic algorithm policies for different types of applications and different computing environments. Managing cryptography in the future will be untenable if IT personnel need to individually change configurations of cryptographic algorithms for every piece of software and hardware. Instead, policy-driven, automated management of agile cryptography is required.
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Rather than software developers choosing cryptography options, as in the past, the future requires organizations to leverage knowledgeable resources to determine which combinations of algorithms and key lengths should be used on an application-by-application basis. This collective set of policies defines the organization’s overall cryptography security policy.
Policy-driven cryptography allows a small group of experts to centrally define the set of algorithms for each application. The policy drives the software and enables a critical abstraction of cryptography away from applications. Among a number of benefits, including improving software quality and security, the core benefit of this abstraction is that end user organizations can change their cryptography policies without requiring any changes to applications themselves – a revolutionary concept in software and cryptography. This is the definition of policy-driven, agile cryptography management.
