# Oracle Adds Database Crypto Assessment for Quantum Readiness

By Simon Yoon

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Published: 2026-11-05T18:35:56.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-05T18:35:56.000Z
Section: Technology

> The Oracle Data Safe feature reviews encryption settings across registered databases and reports post-quantum readiness.

Oracle added a cryptography assessment for database customers as Vipin Samar, the company’s senior vice president of software engineering for database security, warned attackers may collect encrypted data for decryption by future quantum computers.

Oracle introduced Cryptographic Posture Assessment in Oracle Data Safe on Oct. 26. The feature provides fleetwide findings and details for each registered database. It checks algorithms, protocols, key lengths and certificate expiration dates, along with encryption for stored data, network connections, backups and exports. The results show whether databases use FIPS mode and how ready they are for post-quantum cryptography.

“It doesn’t help if network encryption is strong, but other parts are actually on the weaker side,” Samar said in a Nov. 4 interview.

The assessment supports registered databases running Oracle Database 19.32 or later and Oracle AI Database 23.26.3 or later. Separately, Oracle AI Database 26ai supports ML-KEM and ML-DSA, standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It also offers a hybrid ML-KEM/ECDHE option for TLS session key exchange.

The risk is often called “harvest now, decrypt later”: storing encrypted information now in hopes that future quantum computers can make it readable. The timing of a quantum computer capable of breaking current cryptography is unknown.

NIST published its final post-quantum cryptography transition report Oct. 27. It sets 2030 migration targets for key establishment and 2031 targets for digital signatures on specified federal high-value assets and high-impact systems. Those targets apply to the specified federal systems, not all Oracle customers or private companies. NIST approved its first three post-quantum cryptography standards, FIPS 203, FIPS 204 and FIPS 205, on Aug. 13, 2024.