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Caute_cautim
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NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Three security standards are ready for use.

Hi All

 

Today, almost all data on the Internet, including bank transactions, medical records, and secure chats, is protected with an encryption scheme called RSA (named after its creators Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman). This scheme is based on a simple fact—it is virtually impossible to calculate the prime factors of a large number in a reasonable amount of time, even on the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Unfortunately, large quantum computers, if and when they are built, would find this task a breeze, thus undermining the security of the entire Internet.

Luckily, quantum computers are only better than classical ones at a select class of problems, and there are plenty of encryption schemes where quantum computers don’t offer any advantage. Today, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the standardization of three post-quantum cryptography encryption schemes. With these standards in hand, NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to post-quantum security as soon as possible.

 

https://spectrum.ieee.org/post-quantum-cryptography-2668949802

 

Regards

 

Caute_Cautim

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Kyaw_Myo_Oo
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Thanks for sharing @Caute_cautim.

 

 

Kyaw Myo Oo
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