Cost of Delay for Post-Quantum Migration: Putting Classical and Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later Risk on One Ordered List

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Animesh Shaw)

Summary by Cyber Security News8 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.09029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organisations deciding which assets to migrate to post-quantum cryptography first, and how that work competes with a backlog of classical findings, lack a common unit: post-quantum scores are dimensionless and quantum-only, while classical risk is annualised loss. We express both threats as a cost of delay in currency per year on the same asset.

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