Yahoo · Sep 17, 2026
Satellites Built Today Must Outlive the Encryption Protecting Them
Equity Insider News Commentary – A satellite launched this year may still be flying in the 2040s. The cryptography protecting its command links, its downlinks and its ground segment was, in most cases, chosen years before launch and cannot be swapped out with a service call. That mismatch between hardware lifecycles and cryptographic lifecycles is why post-quantum security has moved from a research topic to a procurement question inside space agencies, and why the work is starting now rather tha
