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SEALSQ and Palm Technologies plan quantum-resistant palm payment hardware
SEALSQ and India's Palm Technologies began a design programme pairing palm biometric payment readers with post-quantum secure hardware.
2026-08-19CC-BY-4.0post-quantumpalm-paymentssecure-elementtransit
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- The design uses the SEALSQ QS7001 secure microcontroller.
- It implements the Kyber and Dilithium post-quantum algorithms.
- The first target application is the MetPalm V1 reader for metro and toll payments.
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Biometric payment readers have long deployment lifecycles, so cryptographic agility at the hardware layer matters more than in software-refreshed systems. Pairing palm capture with a post-quantum secure element addresses the template-protection problem and the transport-security problem in the same component.