Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process
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Really. I hope everyone saw this coming. The process has also been weirdly slow. I’m not sure why everyone is waiting up for NIST.
Thankfully, PQ HTTPS is just around the corner now, and I imagine other TLS-based protocols won’t be far behind.