BlackBerry, NXP team up on hardening vehicle chips
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   BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) says it's teaming up with NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) on defending against cyber-attacks on in-vehicle software.    BlackBerry will support quantum-resistant secure boot signatures for NXP's S32G vehicle networking processors.    That will allow software to be digitally signed using the CRYSTALS Dilithium signature scheme recently endorsed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology    The power of quantum computing has the potential to render current public key cryptography useless, the companies note. Strengthening systems with quantum resistance helps defend against a "Y2Q" scenario where quantum computing is leveraged by threat actors, they say.