White Papers

Background reading on post-quantum encryption.

Plain-language papers for teams evaluating the threat model, the standards, and what post-quantum encryption looks like in practice.

Available

Why Long-Lived Data Needs Post-Quantum Protection Now

A plain-language guide to why healthcare, government, research, AI, and intellectual property data may need protection beyond the expected lifetime of today's encryption. Covers harvest-now-decrypt-later, the NIST standards, why application-layer encryption matters, and honest beta limitations.

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Inside VellumGuard's Key Rotation Lifecycle

A technical walkthrough of how VellumGuard handles Cloud KMS-wrapped DEKs, active key promotion, multi-DEK runtime support, controlled identity-key rewrap, and old key retirement — with audit events at each step.

Email beta@vellumguard.com to be notified when this is available.

Design partner program

Build with post-quantum encryption before you're asked to.

We are onboarding a small group of design partners. Healthcare, defense, long-lived-data, and AI training-data use cases prioritized. Beta is free unless otherwise agreed in writing.