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Bi-weekly POV from a working researcher. Post-quantum cryptography, quantum kernels on NISQ, ICS security, IoT standards. New posts every other Friday.
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2026-04-26 · ~6 min read
Why ICS PQC migration is 10× harder than TLS migration →
TLS migration is software with a fast feedback loop. ICS migration is hardware procurement on a 20-year clock. Five concrete reasons.
Upcoming topic backlog
- Why most ICS PQC migration plans assume a CRQC arrives in 2030 — and why 2027 is more realistic
- The HSM problem nobody talks about: Kyber on a smartcard
- Reading a quantum-advantage claim like a peer reviewer: a checklist
- What ZZFeatureMap actually buys you over RBF kernels — measured on ibm_fez
- Why the SCADA migration is 10× harder than the TLS migration
- PQ-EDHOC: what changed in the IETF LAKE working group this quarter
- 6G spectrum efficiency under partial observability — the part you don't read about
- Three papers I rejected this month and one I would have accepted with revisions
- The Chicago quantum ecosystem from the security side
- What an honest threat model for harvest-now-decrypt-later looks like
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