What You Get
Every issue of The PQC Migration Brief answers one question: What does this development mean for my Post-Quantum Cryptography migration?
I filter recent PQC developments through a single lens: practical impact on organizations planning, executing, or governing post-quantum cryptography migration programs. Algorithm guidance changes, regulatory deadline shifts, vendor readiness updates, infrastructure research findings, and lessons from real programs — analyzed for the people who actually have to do this work.
If a development doesn’t affect how you run your migration, I skip it. You can find broader quantum computing coverage at PostQuantum.com. This newsletter exists for the practitioners in the room with 120,000 tasks on their program plan and a steering committee expecting progress.
What Each Issue Covers
Each issue contains 2–5 analyzed items drawn from standards body publications, vendor announcements, regulatory actions, research papers, and implementation experience. Every item includes a concrete assessment of what it means for your program and what, if anything, you should do about it.
Longer deep dives (3,000–5,000 words on a single topic) publish monthly or when a development warrants detailed treatment. Urgent items such as algorithm deprecations, critical vulnerabilities, regulatory deadline changes, go out immediately rather than waiting for the regular cadence.
What You Won’t Find Here
General quantum computing news. Hardware milestone announcements (unless they change CRQC timeline estimates enough to affect migration urgency). Quantum sensing, quantum networking, or quantum AI developments. Vendor marketing repackaged as analysis. Theory without application.
I take positions. When a vendor’s “quantum-safe” claim covers 15% of what migration actually requires, I say so. When a standards body publishes guidance that conflicts with what works in practice, I explain the gap. This is practitioner analysis, not a press release digest.
Who Writes This
I’m Marin Ivezic, founder and CEO of Applied Quantum and blogger at PostQuantum.com. I’ve led PQC migration programs for telecoms and financial institutions — programs with six-figure task counts, multi-year timelines, and the full range of complications that real IT/OT estates produce.
I authored the Applied Quantum PQC Migration Framework, a free, open-source (CC BY 4.0) methodology covering every phase from executive mandate through vendor governance. My forthcoming book Quantum Ready covers organizational quantum readiness in depth.
The framework is the reference methodology. This newsletter keeps you current on what’s changing around it.
The Framework Connection
The PQC Migration Framework is completely free and ungated — no email required, no signup wall. You can download, use, and adapt it today under CC BY 4.0.
This newsletter is the companion channel. When an IETF draft changes how hybrid TLS handshakes work, I’ll tell you which framework phase it affects and what to adjust. When a regulatory body moves a deadline, I’ll connect it to your roadmap. The framework gives you the methodology; the newsletter keeps it current.
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