Under Starters Orders: The Race is on to Address One of the Greatest Challenges in Modern Computer Science

In January 2019, NIST took 69 submissions for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization and created a shorter-list of 29. This process aims to address the major problem of quantum computers cracking discrete logarithms, elliptic curve cryptography (eg ECDH for key exchange and ECDSA for digital…