AMERICAN STANDARDS BODY RELEASES CRYPTOGRAPHY TO DEFEND FINANCIAL SERVICES AND THE INTERNET AGAINST QUANTUM COMPUTING
September 30th, 2022
An American regulator and IT specialists have made progress in devising new encryption that they hope will protect the Internet, ecommerce, financial systems and digital signatures against computers that use quantum computing. Keith Nuthall reports.
It has been a long time coming. Cryptographers have for the past six years been developing code for the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that can protect against hacks from quantum computers.
But this July (2022), NIST announced that it has chosen four systems for use within its ...
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