Hi All,
NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its principal set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand cyberattacks from a quantum computer.
Researchers around the world are racing to build quantum computers that would operate in radically different ways from ordinary computers and could break the current encryption that provides security and privacy for just about everything we do online. The algorithms announced today are specified in the first completed standards from NIST's post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization project, and are ready for immediate use.
The standards - containing the encryption algorithms' computer code, instructions for how to implement them, and their intended uses - are the result of an eight-year effort managed by NIST, which has a long history of developing encryption. The agency has rallied the world's cryptography experts to conceive, submit and then evaluate cryptographic algorithms that could resist the assault of quantum computers. The nascent technology could revolutionize fields from weather forecasting to fundamental physics to drug design, but it carries threats as well.
Attached are the three standards:
NIST FIPS 205 Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard
NIST.FIPS.204 Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signal Standard
NIST.FIPS.203 Module-Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism Standard
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Michael Roza CPA, CISA, CIA, CC, CCSKv5, CCZTv1, MBA, EMBA, CSA
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