{"id":141721,"date":"2022-07-05T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nist-acknowledges-first-four-quantum-resistant-encryption-tools"},"modified":"2022-07-05T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T04:22:49","slug":"nist-acknowledges-first-four-quantum-resistant-encryption-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nist-acknowledges-first-four-quantum-resistant-encryption-tools","title":{"rendered":"NIST Acknowledges First Four Quantum-Resistant Encryption Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nist-acknowledges-first-four-quantum-resistant-encryption-tools.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Commerce\u2019s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first-ever group of encryption tools that could potentially withstand the attack of a quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>The four selected encryption algorithms will now reportedly become part of NIST\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/opinions\/quantum-encryption-the-basics\/\" target=\"_blank\">post-quantum cryptographic<\/a> (PQC) standard, which should be finalized in about two years.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, for general encryption (used for access to secure websites), NIST has selected the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Commerce\u2019s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first-ever group of encryption tools that could potentially withstand the attack of a quantum computer. The four selected encryption algorithms will now reportedly become part of NIST\u2019s post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) standard, which should be finalized in about two years. More [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}