Standards with Open Questions regarding PQC Adoption

August 28, 2024This document analyzes standards that would require the integration of post-quantum (PQ) algorithms or the mitigation these algorithms bring in order to mitigate the quantum computing risk to cryptography.Successfully updating open standards used for...

NIST Finalizes Three Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

This clears the way for broad deployment of post-quantum cryptography to begin in earnest. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the final approval of the first three full federal standards for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. ...

An inconvenient truth about modern cryptography

July 31, 2024We need the hardness of mathematical problems to reap the benefits of cryptography – and these are benefits we badly need.  For a week in April of 2024, the cryptologic research community was trying to make sense of a freshly announced result.  Yilei Chen...