Course overview

Download the course datasheetThe full outline for Quantum-Safe Cryptography: From Qubits to Production, as a PDF.

thinQtank® Learning is offering a unique five-day training camp comprised of five days of instructor-led learning that gives students the knowledge and skills needed to understand, assess and migrate to quantum-safe cryptography — from the physics and history of quantum key distribution, through the quantum threat to RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography, to the NIST post-quantum standards that browsers, SSH, VPNs and PKI are adopting today.

Every day is built around hands-on labs that run in the browser on thinqtanklearning.com. Students run real quantum algorithms on a simulator, catch an eavesdropper on a BB84 link, generate genuine ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA keys, build hybrid post-quantum TLS, SSH and IPsec, and finish with a capstone readiness assessment of a simulated defense-contractor network.

There is no vendor certification exam for this subject. Students who complete the labs and the capstone earn the thinQtank® Learning Quantum-Safe Cryptography certificate of completion.

What's included

13 items

The thinQtank® Learning Quantum-Safe Cryptography Course Guide

14 browser-based labs and a capstone on thinqtanklearning.com — nothing to install

Genuine post-quantum cryptography in the labs: real ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA keys and signatures

Course specific thinQtank® Learning publications to promote a fun and exciting learning

Membership to the thinQtank® Learning University Online

No vendor test to teach to — every day is hands-on engineering

All courses taught by experienced security engineers

Additional hours of lab access after the course

Custom video recordings with even more in-depth learning of course topics

Knowledge checks at the end of every module

Digital courseware: course guide, lab guide and daily slide decks

Retake any or all portions of the course as many times as you like in person or live on-line for 24 months

Six months mentoring access to our engineers after completing the course

What you'll be able to do

11 objectives

Identify which classical algorithms depend on factoring and discrete logarithms, and why that matters
Describe qubits, superposition, measurement, entanglement and the no-cloning theorem without heavy math
Trace the history of the field, from Wiesner and BB84 to Shor, Grover and the NIST standards
Quantify the threat from Shor's and Grover's algorithms, harvest-now-decrypt-later, and Mosca's inequality
Explain QKD protocols (BB84, E91, decoy-state, MDI, CV-QKD), their limits and government positions on them
Compare the post-quantum math families: lattice, hash-based, code-based, multivariate and isogeny
Apply the NIST standards: ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA (FIPS 205), plus the FN-DSA and HQC work in progress
Map policy and protocol work: NIST IR 8547, NSA CNSA 2.0, NSM-10, and IETF hybrid key exchange for TLS, SSH and IKEv2
Recognize where post-quantum cryptography already runs in production today
Plan migration: crypto inventory and CBOMs, crypto-agility, hybrid deployment, handshake size, PKI and code signing
Evaluate what's on the horizon: error-corrected quantum hardware, the quantum internet, and new signature schemes

The exam

There is no vendor certification exam for this subject
Students who complete the 14 labs and the capstone earn the thinQtank® Learning Quantum-Safe Cryptography certificate of completion
Built around the NIST FIPS 203, 204 and 205 standards and the NSA CNSA 2.0 transition timeline

Who it's for, and what you need first

Target Audience

Network and security engineers
PKI, cryptography and identity administrators
ISSOs, ISSMs and compliance staff facing CNSA 2.0 milestones
Security architects and CISO staff planning a migration
DoD, federal and defense-contractor personnel
Service members, veterans and military spouses using AF COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0

Prerequisites

Security+ level knowledge of cryptography: symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, hashes, PKI and TLS
Comfort at a Linux command line
No physics or advanced mathematics required

How it's delivered

Instructor-Led Training

Immersive Live-Online Training

On-Site and Custom Delivery

Dates and locations

10 scheduled

Dates	Location	Status
Mon Dec 7 – Dec 11, 20265 days · Mon–Fri	Sterling, VA21481 Ridgetop Cir	Open	Request info
Mon Jan 11 – Jan 15, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Atlanta, GA431 Marietta St NW	Open	Request info
Mon Feb 22 – Feb 26, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Burbank, CA3301 N San Fernando Blvd	Open	Request info
Mon Apr 5 – Apr 9, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Sterling, VA21481 Ridgetop Cir	Open	Request info
Mon May 10 – May 14, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Atlanta, GA431 Marietta St NW	Open	Request info
Mon Jun 21 – Jun 25, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Burbank, CA3301 N San Fernando Blvd	Open	Request info
Mon Aug 2 – Aug 6, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Sterling, VA21481 Ridgetop Cir	Open	Request info
Mon Sep 13 – Sep 17, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Atlanta, GA431 Marietta St NW	Open	Request info
Mon Oct 18 – Oct 22, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Burbank, CA3301 N San Fernando Blvd	Open	Request info
Mon Dec 6 – Dec 10, 20275 days · Mon–Fri	Sterling, VA21481 Ridgetop Cir	Open	Request info

Guaranteed to run means the class goes ahead whatever the enrollment.

Prices shown are MSRP. Qualified military personnel funding through Air Force COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0 pay a flat $1,500 per class, whatever the listed price. Everyone else — call 855-868-4467 about group pricing, discounts and current promotions.

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