Technology and Digital Systems
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeTechnology and Digital SystemsDepartment of Computing, Data and Quantum Technologies
Quantum computing, sensing, communication and the post-quantum migration
Quantum technologies covers quantum computing, sensing and communication, their realistic timelines and limits, and the transition risk they pose to public-key cryptography.
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The discipline teaches the principles of qubits and quantum advantage without hype, quantum key distribution and its practical limits, harvest-now-decrypt-later as the threat that makes migration urgent, cryptographic inventory and crypto-agility, and migration planning to the post-quantum standards FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA) and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) published in 2024, with HQC selected in March 2025 as a further key-encapsulation algorithm, FN-DSA (FIPS 206) still pending and the draft NIST IR 8547 timeline that deprecates RSA and elliptic-curve algorithms from 2030, with the quantum materials, industry and workforce questions behind them. A graduate can inventory the cryptography of an organisation's systems, rank what to migrate first by data lifetime and exposure, and read a claim about quantum timelines against the published evidence.
This area covers quantum computing, sensing and communication, their realistic timelines and limits, and the transition risks they pose, above all the migration of public-key cryptography to post-quantum algorithms. It is taught in the department of Computing, Data and Quantum Technologies, Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems, through courses still to be authored.
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Not yet taught by a course: Quantum technologies for risk professionals; Post-quantum migration planning.
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