# iMessage with PQ3: The new state of the art in quantum-secure messaging at scale - Apple Security Research - Host: [security.apple.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/security.apple.com/) - Saved: February 22, 2024 (2024-02-22T20:24:34Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e5d01e82bc24/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e5d01e82bc24.json ## What Jamie wrote Someday we will or may have quantum computers and theoretically they will be able to brute force existing encryption methods. Apple is moving iMessage to a post-quantum encryption method now in preparation for that. Any solutions that use encryption heavily seem to be considering this change. Ethereum has a roadmap for a post-quantum approach for example. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT278: Weekly Thing 278 / Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/278/), Briefly ## Same host - [Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d9c5a8f928e2/) (security.apple.com, September 11, 2025) ## Saved the same week - [The Case Against Caffeine - Insight Axis](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ee071dac234b/) (zantafakari.substack.com, February 21, 2024) - [Death, Lonely Death — Crooked Timber](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/17b49ed76903/) (crookedtimber.org, February 21, 2024) - [2024 MLS season kicks off today exclusively on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV - Apple](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9a70f6bd2d1a/) (apple.com, February 21, 2024) - [Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f33176e450af/) (signal.org, February 21, 2024) - [Daring Fireball: Apple Sports](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b92369c48562/) (daringfireball.net, February 21, 2024) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/