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The latest Caliptra coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Bakes Hardware Security and Quantum-Resistant Crypto Directly into Azure Servers
Microsoft’s cloud security architects have fundamentally reimagined how to protect data and workloads in Azure, moving from software firewalls and centralized appliances to hardware-anchored...
Microsoft Forges a Hardware Security Stack for Azure: Custom DPU, Local HSM, and Post-Quantum Roots of Trust
Microsoft is embedding security directly into the silicon that powers Azure, rolling out custom data processing units, server-embedded hardware security modules, and an open-source root of trust...
Hot Chips 2025: Microsoft Unveils Azure Integrated HSM and Open-Source Caliptra 2.0 Root of Trust
At Hot Chips 2025, Microsoft pulled back the curtain on a fundamental redesign of Azure’s hardware security, revealing a custom security ASIC called Azure Integrated HSM and an open-source silicon...
Microsoft Fast-Tracks Quantum-Safe Crypto: 2029 Early Adoption, 2033 Full Transition for Windows and Azure
Microsoft has drawn a hard line in the sand: all its products and services must be quantum-safe by 2033. That target—two years ahead of the 2035 deadline set by most governments—comes with an...
Microsoft Sets 2029 PQC Rollout Target, Aims for Full Quantum-Safe Ecosystem by 2033
Microsoft is moving post-quantum cryptography from theoretical warnings into a concrete, multi-year engineering plan. The company’s newly detailed Quantum Safe Program (QSP) carves a path from...
Microsoft Unleashes Quantum-Safe Encryption: PQC Comes to Windows, Linux, and Silicon
Microsoft has taken its most concrete step yet toward a quantum-safe future, releasing early-access builds of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for Windows Insiders and Linux, alongside new open-source...