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Stay Ahead of Tomorrow's Cyber Threats with Quantum-Resistant Encryption!

News | 07.02.2025

The quantum computing era is coming, and with it, the need for stronger encryption. OneSpan’s latest Authentication Suite Server SDK ensures your sensitive data is safeguarded with AES-256 quantum-resistant encryption, protecting against future “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks.

Quantum computers have the potential to break the cryptographic algorithms that protect our digital world today, leaving sensitive data vulnerable. While the risk is only theoretical at present and there is no way of knowing for certain if quantum computers capable of breaking cryptographic algorithms will ever actually exist, it is good security practice to be prepared.

That is why we are drawing your attention to OneSpan’s Authentication Suite Server SDK, our core authentication engine. OneSpan Authentication Suite Server SDK provides functionality to validate one-time passwords and transaction authentication codes generated by authenticators, either in hardware or software, according to the Digipass, Cronto, and OATH authentication algorithms.

Authentication Suite Server SDK receives the cryptographic keys used to validate these one-time passwords and transaction authentication codes in files adhering to the DPX-file format and stores them inside data structures called BLOBs. The content of both DPX-files and BLOBs is encrypted using symmetric cryptography to protect the confidentiality of the cryptographic keys.

The encryption mechanism utilized for the DPX files and BLOBs must be secure. This is particularly important also in light of new attacks made possible by advances in quantum computing technology.

OneSpan is working to ensure that the encryption engine is based on post-quantum mechanisms and is therefore quantum resistant.