IBM-Developed Algorithms Announced as NIST's First Published Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
IBM News, Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
As quantum computers rapidly advance, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes new algorithms, including those developed by IBM, in collaboration with industry partners, to secure data against potential quantum attacks
Two IBM-developed algorithms have been officially published among the first three post-quantum cryptography standards, announced today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The standards include three post-quantum cryptographic algorithms: two of them, ML-KEM (originally known as CRYSTALS-Kyber) and ML-DSA (originally CRYSTALS-Dilithium) were developed by IBM researchers in collaboration with several industry and academic partners. The third published algorithm, SLH-DSA (initially submitted as SPHINCS+) was co-developed by a researcher who has since joined IBM. Additionally, a fourth IBM-developed algorithm, FN-DSA (originally called FALCON), has been selected for future standardization.