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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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5 Ways Quantum Computing Will Change the World

Martin Laforest
Apr 17, 2019

In the days after I resigned from my position as the senior manager of scientific outreach at the Institute for Quantum Computing to join ISARA Corporation, one esteemed colleague after another would offer…

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Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum-Safe Cryptography: two (complementary) approaches to becoming quantum-ready

Martin Laforest
Nov 29, 2018

Every advancement in quantum computing brings us closer to the positive and negative disruptions this revolutionary technology promises. Though a large-scale quantum computer is not here yet, its future…

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