The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published the first round of winners in its six-year-long competition to determine which algorithms will protect our data from the threat of quantum decryption. Three of the four winning entries were designed in tandem with IBM. And the person who wrote the fourth has since been hired by Big Blue. I spoke to Scott Crowder, vice president of IBM Quantum, to get a feel for the significance of the NIST announcement and to try and understand the scope of the problem. It turns out the big idea here involves making…
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