NIST Hands Off Post-Quantum Cryptography Work to Cyber Teams

No longer relegated to post-doctorate physics academia and sad Schrödinger's cat thought experiments, post-quantum computing remediation has arrived in the real world.

Quantum computing is expected to emerge in earnest a decade from now, with the power to crack existing public key infrastructure (PKI) cryptography schemes like RSA and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). And with NIST's recent release of three final quantum encryption standards, security teams are now racing against that 10-year clock to update vulnerable cryptography before quantum algorithms go into production that are capable of crushing them and unlocking reams of secret data.

With NIST effectively handing off the work of post-quantum encryption remediation planning and execution to cybersecurity teams around the world with the release of the standards, the time is now for rank-and-file cybersecurity professionals to get "hands on" with post-quantum cryptography (PQC), according to Jason Soroko, senior vice president of product at Sectigo.

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