BTQ Technologies announces strategic collaboration with Daou Data

BTQ Technologies (BTQ)announced a strategic collaboration with Daou Data, one of Korea’s leading IT and payment infrastructure companies, to advance hardware-rooted post-quantum security for Korea’s electronic payment systems. The collaboration is focused on strengthening the security architecture of Daou Data’s payment gateway and value-added network infrastructure through the introduction of hardware-based Korean post-quantum cryptography. The initiative is designed to help prepare critical payment infrastructure for the emerging risks posed by quantum computing, including so-called Harvest Now, Decrypt Later attacks, in which encrypted data intercepted today may be stored and decrypted in the future once sufficiently powerful quantum systems become available. Under the collaboration, BTQ will contribute its expertise in post-quantum security architecture, hardware-rooted trust frameworks, and deployment design for long-life institutional systems. Daou Data will explore deployment pathways across its payment and enterprise infrastructure, with an initial focus on reinforcing the security foundations of its PG and VAN environments. The goal is to establish a more secure architecture for key generation, cryptographic processing, and key management within dedicated hardware boundaries, helping reduce exposure to external leakage even in the event of system intrusion or elevated privilege compromise.