Quantum sensing and post-quantum cryptography are two technologies that researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be prioritizing in the coming year as researchers focus on the logistics behind commercializing applied quantum technologies.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created grids of tiny clumps of atoms known as quantum dots and studied what happens when electrons dive into these archipelagos of atomic islands.
The Director of NSA is the National Manager for NSS and therefore issues guidance for NSS. The algorithms in CNSA 2.0 are an update to those in the currently required Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (now referred to as CNSA 1.0) listed in CNSSP 15, Annex B (released in 2016). The CNSA 2.0 algorithms have been analyzed as secure against both classical and quantum computers, and they will eventually be required for NSS.
NIST issued the public call for submissions to the PQC Standardization Process in December 2016 and, after three rounds of evaluation and analysis, announced the selection of the first algorithms to be standardized… NIST has announced that the PQC standardization process is continuing with a fourth round.
The WISeKey’s team of experts is working with several NIST’s candidates for the MS600X Common Criteria products: Crystals-Kyber for key exchange mechanism, and Crystals-Dilithium for signatures.
Civil-rights firm Loevy & Loevy has now filed suit on [D. J. Bernstein’s] behalf in federal court, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to force NIST to comply with the law.
[E]ncryption algorithm that was supposed to stand up to attacks from the future’s most powerful computers was recently laid low by a much simpler machine.
The more people try to attack the new PQC algorithms and fail, the more likely it is that they are secure.
What should CISOs be doing to prepare for the risks of quantum computers and to comply with NSM-10 requirements?
Scott Bledsoe, CEO at Theon, said while passing of the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act is a symbolic move in the right direction, it may be just a little too late.
