{"id":33108,"date":"2017-01-02T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/us-government-escalates-push-for-post-quantum-cryptography"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:42","slug":"us-government-escalates-push-for-post-quantum-cryptography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/us-government-escalates-push-for-post-quantum-cryptography","title":{"rendered":"US Government Escalates Push for Post-Quantum Cryptography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-government-escalates-push-for-post-quantum-cryptography.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies of the US government are expanding their calls for quantum computing resistant encryption methods. In effect, the National Institute of Standards (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NIST<\/a>) recently announced a request for public-key post-quantum algorithms. This action follows warnings from the National Security Agency (NSA) about the risks of potential quantum-based cyberattacks and the NSA\u2019s appeal for developing post-quantum algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/bitcoin-ready-quantum-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Developments in Quantum Computing Impact Bitcoin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in the near future, it might possible for anyone to manipulate the awesome power of quantum computing. The astronomical price of a quantum computer would not be a limitation because, for example, IBM is <a href=\"https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/49661.wss\">offering<\/a> to the general public quantum computing via the cloud.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/us-government-escalates-quantum-cryptography\/\">https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/us-government-escalates-quantum-cryptography\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal agencies of the US government are expanding their calls for quantum computing resistant encryption methods. In effect, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) recently announced a request for public-key post-quantum algorithms. This action follows warnings from the National Security Agency (NSA) about the risks of potential quantum-based cyberattacks and the NSA\u2019s appeal for developing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34,1625,1490,41,1412,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-government","category-information-science","category-privacy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59295,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions\/59295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}