Abstract
This summer, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, published their finalized post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards, FIPS 203, FIPS 204, and FIPS 205 – the culmination of an eight-year cycle of submission, research, and analysis. This long-awaited announcement marks a significant milestone in the history of PQC, and for PQShield, who co-authored all of these standards. It’s set to impact the cryptography deployed in every industry, affecting everything from machines transferring data across a network, to online financial transactions, hardware infrastructure, and military devices. As a result of this news, chips, devices, software applications, and cryptographic components in supply chains will all now need to be PQC-compliant with the framework of standards announced paper, we take an in-depth look at the FIPS standards for post-quantum cryptography.
We have translated our whitepaper into Japanese which will cover:
- What are the selected algorithms, and why were they chosen? How did the world wake up to the threat of quantum computing?
- What’s the view of companies like PQShield, working with government and security agencies around the world?
- And importantly, what happens next now we have standards FIPS 203, FIPS 204, and FIPS 205.
