Software testing provider Viavi Solutions has developed and launched a new testing capability for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) system deployments.
The platform can emulate large-scale user endpoint traffic applications over secure access connections while measuring individual traffic flow performance.
Arizona-based Ian Langley, senior vice president and general manager of the wireless business unit at Viavi, explained to QA Financial that introducing cryptographic protocols can create additional network performance overhead, ultimately affecting end-user quality of experience.
“The race is on for organisations to upgrade their system testing.”
– Ian Langley
“Quantum computers have the potential to break public-key cryptography once they begin operating at a large scale, an event not anticipated to occur for several more years, “ he said.
“The race is on for organizations to upgrade their processes, system testing, hardware, software and services to avoid Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL) threats where encrypted sensitive information can be hacked and stored to be decrypted and acted upon when quantum computers are available.”
Complex network testing
Viavi has extensive experience testing and assuring large-scale and complex networks worldwide, including security testing.
The company is used by a range of major banks, insurance firms and other financial services players to emulate large-scale user endpoint traffic applications over secure access connections while measuring individual traffic flow performance across multiple quality vectors.
Langley said the new tool “is the first cloud-enabled test platform to support PQC algorithms mandated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
“It enables benchmarking of the performance of enterprise devices, content delivery networks and endpoints that initiate or terminate IPSec Traffic using PQC,” he continued.
Explaining it is a software-based test tool which can be run on commercial-off-the-shelf servers or on cloud platforms, Langley pointed out it is in wide use for its “proven capabilities in testing security compliance as well as performance impacts of security layers.”
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