Post-quantum readiness plannerShelf life · Migration time · Quantum horizon
Answer ten questions you can answer from what you already know, such as how long your data must stay secret and how long a change would take. QASO (Quantum Agentic Security Operations) writes down the shelf life, migration time, and horizon you enter, and returns advisory next steps for post-quantum cryptography (PQC): new encryption and signature algorithms designed to resist attacks by quantum computers. It does not scan your systems, discover your cryptography, choose a migration, or carry one out.
01 · Data shelf life, in years (you enter it; this planner does not discover your cryptography)
How long must your protected data stay confidential?
Data captured today can be stored now and decrypted once a quantum computer exists (harvest now, decrypt later). Pick the longest that applies to you.Glossary of terms used in this planner
- QASO Quantum Agentic Security Operations
- PDF Portable document format
- X25519 An elliptic-curve key agreement that a large quantum computer could break
- PQC Post-quantum cryptography: new encryption and signature algorithms designed to resist attacks by quantum computers
- PoC Proof of concept
- CBOM Cryptography bill of materials: a list of the cryptography calls in source code, by file and line
- NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
- CNSA Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (US)
- NSM National Security Memorandum (US)
- FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard (US)
- ML-KEM Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism
- ML-DSA Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
- SLH-DSA Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
- TLS Transport Layer Security
- PKI Public key infrastructure
- CA Certificate authority
- HSM Hardware security module
- VPN Virtual private network
- SSO Single sign-on
- IKE Internet Key Exchange
- IPsec Internet Protocol Security
- SaaS Software as a service
- OT Operational technology: industrial and building control systems
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- JSON JavaScript Object Notation (a data file format)