Cryptic and Secret Network Foundation today announced a partnership to help organisations move faster on post quantum readiness, starting with production key management inside confidential compute environments and expanding toward policy controls for AI agents and automated workflows.
Under the partnership, Cryptic is deploying key operations on the Secret Network VM, using attestation to support a verifiable chain of trust. The parties will also explore adding post quantum signature options to verifiable message signing as part of Secret’s confidential AI roadmap.
Cryptic selected Secret’s VM technology as the foundation for this work because it offers verifiable confidentiality alongside the reliability and developer experience required for production systems.
Conner Holloway, Founder of Cryptic, said, “Post quantum is a timing issue. Enterprises cannot change cryptography overnight, and data that needs to remain secure for years is already at risk from ‘harvest now decrypt later’ threats. We chose to build on Secret’s VM technology because it is a practical, production grade environment for verifiable confidentiality, and it lets us move now rather than later.”
Luke Bowman, COO of the Secret Network Foundation, said, “Organisations want security they can verify, not security they are asked to trust. Cryptic is bringing a clear post quantum focus to a problem that is arriving faster than most roadmaps allow, and we are pleased they are deploying on Secret’s confidential compute VMs to deliver those guarantees in real systems.”
Initial work includes deploying Cryptic functionality on Secret’s VMs for server side encryption of public chats, alongside joint exploration of post quantum signatures for attestable AI outputs.
ABOUT CRYPTIC
Cryptic is building post quantum key management and cryptographic policy tooling for enterprises and automated systems, with an emphasis on auditability and keeping sensitive key material protected inside confidential compute environments.
ABOUT SECRET NETWORK FOUNDATION
The Secret Network Foundation supports the Secret ecosystem, including confidential compute infrastructure designed to help developers and organisations run workloads with privacy and verifiable integrity.
