The US National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland
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A distinguished cryptography knowledgeable has instructed New Scientist {that a} US spy company might be weakening a brand new technology of algorithms designed to guard towards hackers outfitted with quantum computer systems.
Daniel Bernstein on the University of Illinois Chicago says that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is intentionally obscuring the extent of involvement the US National Security Agency (NSA) has in creating new encryption requirements for “post-quantum cryptography” (PQC). He additionally believes that NIST has made errors – …