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A system of certificate authorities, digital certificates, and key management that binds public keys to identities and underpins trust online.
Hybrid ML-KEM is live on google.com and googleapis.com, and Cloud KMS post-quantum algorithms are generally available. The rest of the roadmap is a dated dependency schedule.
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Identity Digital has moved its agent identity work into a separate company called Known Systems AI. The pitch is a persistent credential that says which firm answers for an agent wherever it goes.
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DigiCert chief executive Amit Sinha says the 47-day certificate mandate and the post-quantum rebuild share a 2029 deadline, so the renewal automation a PKI team is already budgeting is the migration's first floor. The interview is a vendor's account of its own customers.
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Microsoft's Trusted Root Program is running a pilot where participating certificate authorities can test issuance and compatibility against its platform in a controlled environment. DigiCert is the only participant named.
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Executive Order 14412 sets Dec. 31, 2030 for high-value assets and one cryptographic function, while Australia's cyber agencies have asked for complete migration by the same year. The same certificate estate gets scoped twice.
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The v1.37 GA puts X.509 delivery and refresh inside Kubelet, but the authority that actually signs those certificates is still integration work, which is why no adjacent tooling comes out of the plan this quarter.
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