NIST Reveals 26 Algorithms Advancing to the Post-Quantum Crypto ‘Semifinals’

These algorithms are the ones NIST mathematicians and computer scientists consider to be the strongest candidates submitted to its Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization project, whose goal is to create a set of standards for protecting electronic information from attack by the computers of both tomorrow and today. After releasing a report on the status of quantum-resistant cryptography in April 2016, NIST followed up in December 2016 with a call to the public to submit post-quantum algorithms that potentially could resist a quantum computer’s onslaught. Once this second round of review is finished, it is possible there will be a third before NIST announces the post-quantum algorithms that will supplement or replace three standards considered to be most vulnerable to a quantum attack: FIPS 186-4 (which specifies how to use digital signatures), NIST SP 800-56A and NIST SP 800-56B (both of which specify how to establish the keys used in public-key cryptography).

Source: www.nist.gov