Comment rando comments (Score 3, Interesting) 40
Isn't the whole post-quantum algo stuff very interesting? Defining new universal algos that will be used everywhere!
It should be pointed out that it takes awhile for any standard to evolve and continue to evolve (i.e. even tcp just had a standards based rfc just released).
Some background to the NIST process (I am not an expert, but have been occasionally following this):
This touches on the NIST process, showing some key milestones and that it takes years:
https://www.cryptomathic.com/n...
A presentation that goes over several submissions early into the process (a year or so?)
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-99...
I know wiki is bad for a post, but this does go through the list of algos and their rounds in the selection process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For those that are interested: A post quantum library was created: https://libpqcrypto.org/ [this includes many submitted items including the finalists]
It's not clear to me the difference between round4 and the "selected algorithms". Does this mean round4 candidates were algos that took longer to develop and they are just being submitted, but could still end up on the selected list?
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects...
I see that rainbow was a round 3 finalist but the keys were 100s of KBs; was this the only downfall for rainbow...?
While I appreciate a standard universal hardware backed-encryption; but could some algos have a good fit in "bigger infrastructure" (non iot) or long-standing (vpn) connections?
It should be pointed out that it takes awhile for any standard to evolve and continue to evolve (i.e. even tcp just had a standards based rfc just released).
Some background to the NIST process (I am not an expert, but have been occasionally following this):
This touches on the NIST process, showing some key milestones and that it takes years:
https://www.cryptomathic.com/n...
A presentation that goes over several submissions early into the process (a year or so?)
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-99...
I know wiki is bad for a post, but this does go through the list of algos and their rounds in the selection process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For those that are interested: A post quantum library was created: https://libpqcrypto.org/ [this includes many submitted items including the finalists]
It's not clear to me the difference between round4 and the "selected algorithms". Does this mean round4 candidates were algos that took longer to develop and they are just being submitted, but could still end up on the selected list?
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects...
I see that rainbow was a round 3 finalist but the keys were 100s of KBs; was this the only downfall for rainbow...?
While I appreciate a standard universal hardware backed-encryption; but could some algos have a good fit in "bigger infrastructure" (non iot) or long-standing (vpn) connections?
