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NIST’s Post-Quantum Signature On-Ramp Process: Round 1 Overview and Insights

Chris Leonardi
Apr 03, 2024

We will soon get an update from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) about its latest efforts to select and standardize quantum-safe signature schemes. While the end of the first round of this process has not yet been announced, NIST has indicated that it will happen sometime after the Fifth NIST PQC Standardization Conference, being held April 10-12, 2024. With this in mind, we wanted to summarize the submitted signature schemes to date and share our opinions on some of the candidates.

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Quantum Computing: Its Emergence & Implications on Information Security

Mark Pecen
Dec 19, 2017

Leading governments around the globe, along with major corporations, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, have all made substantial investments in the development of large-scale quantum computers, just in…

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Next-Generation Cryptographic Certificates: Toward Quantum-Safe Identity

Mark Pecen
Nov 08, 2017

Cryptographic certificates are used to prove a person’s, system’s, company’s or other entity’s identity. Today, cryptographic certificates are based on public-key cryptography, which is vulnerable to quantum…

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