National Institute for Standards and Technology headquarters in Maryland. NIST will finalize âpost-quantumâ cryptography standards later this year (NIST)
A years-long project by the federal government to develop new âpost-quantumâ cryptography standards will be finalized later this year, according to an official at the National Institute for Standards and Technology.
Most cryptographers believe that the sheer power of quantum computing will be capable of tearing through many of the existing public key encryption algorithms, like RSA or Diffie-Hellman, that underpin most computer hardware and software today. It could also threaten some symmetric key algorithms, though not to nearly the same extent.