Thales and ISARA Corporation - Solution Brief

The onset of large-scale quantum computing will break current public-key cryptography, resulting in widespread vulnerabilities within everything that connects and transacts. This results in a unique problem for long-lived connected devices deployed today which need to remain secure for several years into the quantum age. This is due to the fact that physically embedded roots of trust are used to authenticate software and firmware updates. Without a quantum-safe trust anchor embedded today, they’ll need to be recalled and updated resulting in significant financial and logistical burdens. Protecting software updates is just one of the problems to overcome.