2021/02/25 17:57 (Facebook, Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science photo) (Facebook, Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A four-year contest to find an international cryptographic standard is nearing its final stage, and a Taiwanese team has made it into the semi-finals, with the winner expected to be announced in 2022. Deemed a potentially disruptive technology to revolutionize the future, the post-quantum cryptography market is estimated to reach US$214 million by 2025. Maryland-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began hosting the competition in 2016. The contest is set to select the winning system as the American national standard that will likely be accepted by the world.