Should the U.S. Government Run a Public Contest to Discover Weaknesses in Post-Quantum Computing Algorithms?

…The more people try to attack the new PQC algorithms and fail, the more likely it is that they are secure…

…One possible option for further crowdsourcing the analysis of NIST’s final candidate PQC algorithms would be a contest in which the general public is invited to try to break them…

…A public contest certainly can’t replace a mathematical security analysis, but it could be a useful complement that provides additional evidence of the algorithms’ security…

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Algorithms, Bug Bounty, Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Encryption, hacking, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), U.S. Government, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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