The NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography competition [1] results should be published "soon": https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/fvnhyQ25jUg/m/-pYN2nshBgAJ .
The last reply on that thread promised results by the end of March, but since that has come and gone, I think it's safe to expect results by the end of this month (April). FWIW, NTRU and NTRU Prime both made it to round 3 for the public key encryption/exchange and digital signature categories, but both of them seem to be mired in some sort of patent controversy atm... -- Laolu [1]: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:36 PM Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > First step could be just implementing a similar address type > (secp26k1+NTRU) and associated validation as a soft fork > > https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.0 > > Then people can opt-in to quantum safe addresses > > Still should work with schnorr and other things > > It's a lot of work to fold this in and it's a some extra validation work > for nodes > > Adding a fee premium for using these addresses in order to address that > concern seems reasonable > > I'm not saying I endorse any action at all. Personally I think this is > putting the cart like six and a half miles in front of the horse. > > But if there's a lot of people that are like yeah please do this, I'd be > happy to make an NTRU bip or something. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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