NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should Be
datanami, Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms into practice. Indeed, the number of companies with practices to help others implement PQC is mushrooming and contains familiar (IBM, Deloitte, et al.) and unfamiliar names (QuSecure, SandboxAQ, etc.).
The Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography project, being run out of NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), is running at full-tilt and includes on the order of 40 commercial participants.
In its own words, 'The project will engage industry in demonstrating use of automated discovery tools to identify all instances of public-key algorithm use in an example network infrastructure's computer and communications hardware, operating systems, application programs, communications protocols, key infrastructures, and access control mechanisms. The algorithm employed and its purpose would be identified for each affected infrastructure component.'