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'Military-Grade Encryption' and Other Phrases That Should Make You Reach for Your Notes
Somewhere in nearly every security product’s marketing sits the phrase “military-grade encryption”. Pause on what that phrase actually tells you. The honest answer is: that the vendor employs a marketing department. There is no military grade. The world’s militaries use, for the most part, the same published algorithms as everyone else – AES is approved for US classified information, and AES is also what encrypts your supermarket loyalty app. The algorithm has never been the differentiator. Everything around it is.
Read articlePost-Quantum Cryptography: A Migration Guide for People Who Dislike Panic
The short answer first: the quantum threat to public-key cryptography is real, it is not imminent, and almost everything needed to deal with it in an orderly fashion already exists. That combination is rare in security. One audience is told the sky is falling and sold “quantum-safe” products of uneven seriousness; another decides the whole business is decades away and files it under someone else’s problem. Both are wrong, and the material needed to see why is all in the public record.
Read articleWhat End-to-End Encryption Actually Guarantees — and What It Quietly Doesn't
Few phrases in technology have travelled as far from their technical meaning as “end-to-end encrypted”. It now appears on platforms whose architectures differ so fundamentally that the shared label conveys almost nothing. For an organisation deciding where its sensitive communication should live, the label is the start of the inquiry, not the end of it. This post sets out, as precisely as a general audience allows, what end-to-end encryption guarantees, the conditions attached to that guarantee, and the substantial ground it does not cover.
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