Einstein, 1926 — “God does not play dice”
Quantum machines, classical panic.
A working notebook on quantum mechanics, the machines being built out of it, and the cryptography that has to survive them. For people who want the physics and the engineering in one place — and who have something real to migrate, on a deadline.
Behind this text: a module lattice — the hard problem underneath ML-KEM. Move your cursor and it finds the nearest lattice point. In two dimensions that takes microseconds. In 256, nobody knows how to do it, and that assumption is what your traffic will rest on.
PQC : The migration clock
Read the guidance →Dates that already exist in published guidance. The gap between them is your entire migration window.
2024
Standards finalFIPS 203, 204, and 205 published. ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA stop being drafts.
2026
You are hereHybrid key exchange is default in the major browsers and CDNs. Signatures are the unfinished half.
2030
Deprecated112-bit classical algorithms — RSA-2048, ECDSA P-256 — deprecated for federal use.
2035
DisallowedDisallowed outright. Anything with a secret still worth reading in 2035 is already late.