{"id":149,"date":"2025-02-21T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4292652"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:21:02","slug":"google-announces-quantum-safe-digital-signatures-in-cloud-kms-takes-post-quantum-computing-risks-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tecnoartesanos.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/google-announces-quantum-safe-digital-signatures-in-cloud-kms-takes-post-quantum-computing-risks-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Announces Quantum-Safe Digital Signatures in Cloud KMS, Takes \u201cPost-Quantum Computing Risks Seriously\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tr_20250221-google-cloud-kms-quantum-safe-digital-signatures.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Google announced on Thursday the development of quantum-safe digital signatures (FIPS 204\/FIPS 205) in Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) for software-based keys. This is available in preview.<\/p>\n<p>The search giant also provided a high-level view into its post-quantum strategy for Google Cloud encryption products, including Cloud KMS and the Cloud Hardware Security Module (Cloud HSM).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pinbox right\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">More Google news &amp; tips<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mounting_concern_over_public-key_cryptography_systems\"><\/span>Mounting concern over public-key cryptography systems<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is significant, the company said, because the security of many of the world\u2019s most widely used public-key cryptography systems has increasingly become a concern as experimental quantum computing continues to advance. Large, cryptographically-relevant quantum computers have the potential to break these algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>However, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can use existing hardware and software to mitigate these risks. New PQC standards from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/nist-new-post-quantum-cryptography-standards\/\">National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/a> (NIST) became available in August 2024, enabling tech vendors around the world to begin PQC migrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Google, we take post-quantum computing risks seriously,\u2019\u2019 wrote Jennifer Fernick, a senior staff security engineer, and Andrew Foster, engineering manager of Cloud KMS, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/identity-security\/announcing-quantum-safe-digital-signatures-in-cloud-kms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Cloud blog post<\/a>. \u201cWe began testing PQC in Chrome in 2016, we\u2019ve been using PQC to protect internal communications since 2022, and we\u2019ve taken additional quantum-computing protective measures in Google Chrome, Google\u2019s data center servers, and in experiments for connections between Chrome Desktop and Google products (such as Gmail and Cloud Console).\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Googles_approach_to_quantum-safe_Cloud_KMS\"><\/span>Google\u2019s approach to quantum-safe Cloud KMS<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Google detailed steps the company is taking to make Google Cloud KMS quantum-safe, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offering software and hardware support for standardized quantum-safe algorithms.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting migration paths for existing keys, protocols, and customer workloads to adopt PQC.<\/li>\n<li>Quantum-proofing Google\u2019s underlying core infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing the security and performance of PQC algorithms and implementations.<\/li>\n<li>Contributing technical comments to PQC advocacy efforts in standards bodies and government organizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pledging_open-source_availability\"><\/span>Pledging open-source availability<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Google\u2019s Cloud KMS PQC roadmap supports the NIST post-quantum cryptography standards (FIPS 203, FIPS 204, FIPS 205, and future standards), which can help customers perform quantum-safe key import and key exchange, encryption and decryption operations, and digital signature creation, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>The software implementations of these standards will be available to Cloud KMS clients as open-source software and maintained as part of the Google-authored, open-source cryptographic libraries BoringCrypto and Tink, Fernick and Foster wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum-safe digital signatures are now available in Cloud KMS, so customers can use Google\u2019s existing API to cryptographically sign data and validate signatures using NIST-standardized quantum-safe cryptography with key pairs stored in Cloud KMS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unblocks the essential work of testing and integrating these signing schemes into existing workflows ahead of wider adoption,\u2019\u2019 Fernick and Foster explained. \u201cIt also can help ensure that newly-generated digital signatures are resistant to attacks by future adversaries who may have access to cryptographically-relevant quantum computers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced on Thursday the development of quantum-safe digital signatures (FIPS 204\/FIPS 205) in Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) for software-based keys. 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