= NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization
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This <post-quantum cryptography> competition by <NIST> is a huge milestone of the field.
It was mind blowing when in 2022, after several years of selection, one of the 7 finalists was broken on a <classical computer>, not even in a quantum computer! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30466063 | https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/214 Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop by Ward Beullens. Dude announced he had a break a few days before submission: https://twitter.com/WardBeullens/status/1492780462028300290 On <Twitter>. He's so young. Epic.
Edit: and then, after the third round, things were a bit unclear, so they made a fourth round with 4 choices out of the 7 from round 3, and in August 2022 one of the four was broken again on a classic CPU!!! OMG: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/sike-once-a-post-quantum-encryption-contender-is-koed-in-nist-smackdown/