KXCO Puts Its Quantum - Safe Security in the Open

Instead of asking to be trusted, KXCO published 13 post-quantum security packages open-source on npm and GitHub. Shayne Heffernan on third-party-verifiable cryptography, an Elon-Musk-style trade-secret strategy, and the convergence of chain, quantum and AI. Most technology companies ask you to trust them. KXCO has just done the opposite. This week it published thirteen of its post-quantum security packages as open-source software on npm, the world's largest software registry, with the source code mirrored on GitHub and independently indexed by the supply-chain security service Socket.dev. Anyone — a bank's security team, a regulator, or a competitor — can now read, run and scrutinise exactly how KXCO defends data and identity against the coming generation of quantum computers. That openness is the point. In a market crowded with "quantum-safe" marketing, the rarest thing is a claim a third party can…