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Post-Quantum Security

Post-Quantum · Crypto-agile by design

Post-quantum readiness as a configuration change — not a rebuild.

The migration to post-quantum cryptography is a when, not an if. B5 Secure is built crypto-agile: today’s signing contract stays intact while the underlying primitives move to ML-KEM and ML-DSA, so adopting post-quantum is a configuration change rather than a re-architecture. The enforcement model never changes.

ML-KEM FIPS 203ML-DSA FIPS 204FIPS 140-3 Level 3 HSMCNSA 2.0 aligned
The horizon

Harvest-now, decrypt-later makes post-quantum a present-tense problem.

Long-lived financial and identity data captured today can be decrypted once cryptographically relevant quantum computers arrive — the harvest-now, decrypt-later threat. Standards bodies have responded: NIST has finalized ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204), and CNSA 2.0 sets migration timelines. The risk for most platforms is not the algorithms; it is that cryptography is hard-wired, so migration means a painful rebuild. B5 designs for agility so that migration is configuration.

The B5 approach

Crypto-agility, with the contract held constant.

The signing and verification contract that B5 enforces stays the same; the primitives behind it are swappable. Lead with the outcome — provable, future-proof enforcement — not the internals.

Crypto-agile by design

Signing primitives are configurable, so moving to post-quantum signing is a configuration change while the authorization contract at the call site is unchanged.

ML-KEM and ML-DSA

Alignment to NIST’s finalized post-quantum standards — ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key establishment and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) for signatures.

FIPS 140-3 Level 3 foundation

Keys live in a single-tenant Azure Managed HSM validated to FIPS 140-3 Level 3, with attestation proving provenance inside the hardware boundary.

CNSA 2.0-aligned migration

A documented migration posture aligned to CNSA 2.0 timelines, so the transition is planned, not reactive.

Standards-grounded

Grounded in the published cryptographic standards reviewers expect — NIST SP 800-57 key management guidance and the FIPS 203/204 suite.

Confidential computing ready

Customer-managed keys at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, and confidential-computing options (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX) for the most sensitive operations.

Where it earns its place

Where post-quantum readiness matters now.

Long-lived data

Defend against harvest-now

Data signed or protected today stays defensible as primitives migrate, with no change to the enforcement model.

Regulated signing

Provable, future-proof

Signing in an HSM with attestable provenance, ready to move to ML-DSA as policy and standards require.

Platform longevity

Migration as configuration

A crypto-agile foundation means the post-quantum transition does not become a multi-quarter re-architecture.

Honest framing

Precise about cryptography — no overclaiming.

What the primitives do, stated correctly.

B5 leads with the enforcement and compliance outcome, not cryptographic internals. To be precise: authentication mechanisms prove identity and integrity; they are not, by themselves, encryption, and B5’s post-quantum posture concerns the agility to migrate signing and key-establishment primitives to the NIST-finalized standards. The HSM and FIPS 140-3 foundation is validated today; the ML-KEM / ML-DSA migration is a documented, standards-aligned posture.

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Post-quantum readiness, without the rebuild.

See how crypto-agility keeps your enforcement contract constant while the primitives move to ML-KEM and ML-DSA — inside your boundary, on validated hardware.

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