Security News > 2020 > July > Update on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Program

NIST has now begun the third round of public review.

This "Selection round" will help the agency decide on the small subset of these algorithms that will form the core of the first post-quantum cryptography standard.

"For the most part, they're general-purpose algorithms that we think could find wide application and be ready to go after the third round."

"The likely outcome is that at the end of this third round, we will standardize one or two algorithms for encryption and key establishment, and one or two others for digital signatures," he said.

The quantum-resistant algorithms will be standardized far in advance of any practical quantum computer, which is how we all want this sort of thing to go.

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