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------- Original Message ------- On Friday, August 19th, 2022 at 9:39 PM, jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote: > IEEE Spectrum: “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC. > https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-safe-encryption-hacked > > Future quantum computers may rapidly break modern cryptography. Now > researchers find that a promising algorithm designed to protect computers > from these advanced attacks could get broken in just 4 minutes. And the catch > is that 4-minute time stamp was not achieved by a cutting-edge machine but by > a regular 10-year-old desktop computer. This latest, surprising defeat > highlights the many hurdles postquantum cryptography will need to clear > before adoption, researchers say. > > In theory, [quantum > computers](https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-for-dummies) can > quickly solve problems it might take classical computers untold eons to > solve. For example, much of modern cryptography relies on the extreme > difficulty that classical computers face when it comes to mathematical > problems such as factoring huge numbers. However, quantum computers can in > principle run algorithms that can rapidly crack such encryption. > > To stay ahead of this quantum threat, cryptographers around the world have > spent the past two decades designing [postquantum > cryptography](https://spectrum.ieee.org/post-quantum-cryptography) (PQC) > algorithms. These are based on [new mathematical > problems](https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-chip-delivers-quantum-resistant-encryption) > that both quantum and classical computers find difficult to solve. > > “What is most surprising is that the attack seemingly came out of nowhere.” > —Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland at College Park > > For > [years](https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/12/nist-asks-public-help-future-proof-electronic-information), > researchers at organizations such as the [National Institute of Standards > and Technology](https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography) > (NIST) have been investigating which PQC algorithms should become the new > standards the world should adopt. NIST announced it was seeking candidate PQC > algorithms in 2016, and received 82 submissions in 2017. In > [July](https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms), > after three rounds of review, NIST announced [four algorithms that would > become > standards](https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2022/pqc-candidates-to-be-standardized-and-round-4), > and four more would enter another round of review as possible additional > contenders.
