The machine that will break today’s encryption runs colder than deep space. Watch one come apart — then see how Ausper is getting federal systems ready for it.
Scroll for the briefA superconducting quantum computer is mostly refrigerator. Its processor runs near 10 millikelvin — roughly 270 times colder than deep space — because heat is noise.
Each plate runs colder than the one above. Microwave control pulses travel down through attenuators at every stage to reach the qubits. Drag to turn it.
On a large, error-corrected machine, Shor’s algorithm turns qubits into a way to factor the numbers RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography depend on. No such machine exists yet. The deadlines already do.
Adversaries don’t need the machine today. They record encrypted traffic now and keep it — so anything with a long secrecy lifetime is already exposed.
FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) rests on hard lattice problems no known quantum algorithm solves efficiently. Getting there is inventory, prioritization and evidence — work an ATO team already knows.
We don’t follow quantum as a trend. We follow it as a set of obligations already on paper — and every date below is public and checkable.
The National Security Memorandum on quantum computing directs agencies to inventory quantum-vulnerable systems and plan their migration.
Civilian agencies inventory their cryptography annually and prioritize what migrates first.
Makes migration to post-quantum cryptography federal law for agency systems.
NIST’s first post-quantum standards: ML-KEM for key establishment, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA for signatures.
NSA’s suite for national security systems: quantum-resistant algorithms in new acquisitions this decade, full transition targeted by 2033.
Post-quantum cyber is where Ausper works today. Ausper Labs is where our quantum research lives. Both start from the same habit: find what’s actually there, then prove what changed.
We find every place cryptography lives in your boundary — TLS terminations, VPNs, PKI, code signing, data at rest, and what vendors embed in appliances — then rank it against FIPS 203/204/205 and CNSA 2.0 by data lifetime and exposure. The roadmap lands where your authorizing official already looks: the SSP, the POA&M and the continuous-monitoring plan. It’s the discipline AccelSecure™ brings to authorization, pointed at the quantum transition.
Scope an assessment → R&DQuantum dots are nanoscale semiconductor structures that confine single electrons — quantum physics you can engineer. Ausper Labs has a quantum-dot solution in active R&D, designed in partnership with university researchers. Patent pending.
Go deeper → AGILITYFor systems still being built: design so an algorithm can be swapped without rearchitecting — the difference between a planned migration and rediscovering your cryptography one appliance at a time, in production.
Talk to us → ATOAs programs begin reaching quantum processors through cloud services and hybrid high-performance computing, those connections need an authorization like any other interconnection: a defined boundary, mapped data flows, implemented controls, real evidence. That’s our core practice, applied to a new kind of endpoint.
How an ATO works →Every algorithm, key length, protocol and dependency in the boundary — including what vendors embed in appliances you can’t open.
A gap analysis against the NIST PQC standards and CNSA 2.0, ranked by how long the data must stay secret and how exposed it is.
A migration plan written into the artifacts your AO already reads, governed by the SC-12 and SC-13 controls your package already carries.
Tell us the system and the boundary. We’ll tell you plainly what an inventory involves and what breaks first.
The machine on this page is an illustrative model of a dilution-refrigerator quantum computer, drawn to explain how one works. It is not an Ausper product, and Ausper does not build quantum computers. Stage temperatures are typical published values.
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