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I keep secrets for a living.

I am a cryptographer and the founder of LaMarr Labs. My mission is to get people and institutions ready for the quantum transition. I also want to make the world of secrets feel open to everyone, not just the experts.

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Addie LaMarr

WHAT I DO

One mission, held in superposition.

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LaMarr Labs

My independent, vendor-neutral post-quantum cryptography advisory. We help highly regulated industries plan and carry out their migration.

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Keynotes and panels

I speak to boards, CISOs and conference rooms about the quantum transition and the people who have to carry it out.

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Video and social

I make cryptography, hacking and quantum make sense for everyday security people on Instagram and YouTube.

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Essays and newsletters

Long reads on security, the quantum shift, and the history and literature of secrets.

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THE BELIEF

I am a cypherpunk.

Not the genre, the 1990s movement: a handful of cryptographers who believed that strong encryption belongs in ordinary hands, not only with governments and banks, because it is what keeps a person free. I have believed that since before I could explain why.

The people I am looking for already feel it: privacy and security belong to all of us, and we are the ones who keep them. If that is you, you are already one of us.

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The quantum transition Cryptographic transition studies Post-quantum cryptography

WHAT IS COMING

The encryption that locks your money, messages, and medical records is going to break.

A quantum computer will eventually be able to open it. For 8 years I was a cryptographer in the Air Force, then years more in government cybersecurity, pointed the entire time at the one thing almost nobody outside my world was talking about. I am telling you early so you do not have to meet it alone.

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Quantum for CISOs

The quantum transition for security leaders.

SUBSTACK

The Quantum S.H.I.F.T.

The quantum transition for practitioners.

SUBSTACK

The Cipher's SHAdow

All of my general cybersecurity work.

WHAT I BUILT

A warning is only worth what you can do about it.

For years the work I wanted to do was too early to be useful. Now it is not, so I built the things people were missing.

Cryptographic Transition Studies

The field I founded, because replacing the cryptography the world runs on is too big to leave to engineers alone. It needs a discipline of its own, one that holds the history, economics, law, and policy as well as the code.

The Quantum Risk Migration Framework

I built it because security teams were handed the warning and no map. It is how you actually make the move, step by step.

Game-theory models

Built because a migration under an adversary is a strategic contest, so the call can be reasoned instead of guessed.

And I still read the cryptography in the code by hand, rather than trust a scanner to tell me what is there. It is the part of this you cannot fake.

OPEN KNOWLEDGE

Some secrets are meant to be shared.

I believe the future of learning is open. What I know should not stay locked in my head or behind a paywall. So I build my knowledge bases in public, and anyone who wants to learn can use them.

FIELD GUIDE

The Post-Quantum Field Guide

My free public guide to the post-quantum migration.

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RESOURCES

Resources

Plain-language security for press, policymakers and everyday people.

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SECOND BRAIN

Cybersecurity Second Brain

My own cybersecurity knowledge base, open for you to explore.

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THE FIELD I FOUNDED

Cryptographic Transition Studies.

The interdisciplinary study of how a society replaces the cryptography it runs on. The world treats the move to post-quantum encryption as an engineering task, an inventory to build and an algorithm to swap. I take the transition itself as the object of study, across its history, economics, law and geopolitics as well as its code. The post-quantum migration is the field's first instance, not its subject.

<2 yrs to clear a public break when the fix is shallow and concentrated
7-11 yrs for the same break diffused across everything, with nothing forcing the change
10 disciplines the field bridges, from the physics of the break to the ethics of concealment

THREE GOVERNING PRINCIPLES

PRINCIPLE 01

The Concealment Asymmetry

Whoever can break your encryption and quietly read your secrets has no reason to tell you. The one who finds the flaw publishes; the one who can read your traffic stays silent and keeps reading. So a transition can never be timed from the news, only from how long your secrets must stay secret.

PRINCIPLE 02

The Build-Rate Ceiling

A transition runs past its deadline because an installed base migrates at the rate it was built, not the rate the threat arrives. In the data the sharp, concentrated breaks cleared fast; the diffuse ones, wired into everything, dragged on for the better part of a decade.

PRINCIPLE 03

The Secrecy Horizon

Put those together and the moment when acting is both still possible and already proven never exists. You begin before the break can be shown, triggered by the shelf-life of what must stay secret, never by evidence of an attack.

You time the asset, not the threat.

The standard way to time this, Mosca's inequality, assumes you can estimate when the quantum threat lands. The first principle says you can't, because the party who can exploit a break is the party working to keep it quiet. So you move before anyone can prove you have to.

OBSESSED WITH SECRETS

I have always loved a good secret.

My firm is named for Hedy Lamarr. She was a film star, and she also co-invented the frequency-hopping technique behind the wireless world we use today.

I started out handling NSA-grade key material for the US Air Force. I still love the old ciphers, the codebreakers and the libraries. That history is how I make sense of what comes next.

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Trust
Issues

with Addie LaMarr

A cryptographer on cyber, hacking, and the future.

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Trust Issues

My podcast. A cryptographer on cyber, hacking, and the future.

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This is where the work goes out first. If you want to understand what is happening to the locks on your life, and help build what comes next, come stand with me.

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WHAT I AM HERE FOR

I am here so everyone comes through this.

The world's trust runs through banks, hospitals, agencies, and the teams inside them, and they have to move first, so guiding them through the transition is my work. Because the locks they carry are everyone's locks, I keep the rest of it open too, so anyone can understand what is happening to the locks on their own life, without a math degree or a clearance. I have spent my whole life on exactly this, and I would rather be the one who gets it right. If that is the side you are on, we are already together.

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Tell me a secret.

For speaking, advisory, brand partnerships and press, write to me and I will get back to you.

addie@addielamarr.com

A SECRET, FOR ANYONE STILL READING. THE WHEEL IS THE KEY.

© 2026 ADDIE LaMARR

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