NIST’s 3 PQC Standards Are Out — Where Do We Go From Here?

The world’s first quantum-resistant cryptographic standards have been published. Is it “go time” to launch public PQC on the web? Not yet — here’s where we stand and what the road ahead looks like

This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published three long-awaited post-quantum cryptographic standards. These Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) will eventually replace many of the modern (i.e., “classical”) public key cryptographic algorithms we depend on today, including RSA.

Cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) are poised to decimate modern public key cryptography. They’ll quickly compute problems that would take modern supercomputers many human lifetimes to figure out. And if we don’t have quantum-resistant algorithms in place to augment and (eventually) replace modern algorithms, then the sensitive data and secrets we hold dear will be at risk of compromise.

Let’s hash it out.

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