Post-Quantum Cryptography: Another Candidate Falls

NIST has already selected CRYSTALS-KYBER as a quantum-resistant TLS algorithm, but was still considering four others for future selection. Now only three.

SIKE has been broken, with an ordinary PC. Now it's just BIKE, Classic McEliece, and HQC as possible alternatives to CRYSTALS-KYBER.

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/round-4-submissions
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected-algorithms-2022
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/sike-once-a-post-quantum-encryption-contender-is-koed-in-nist-smackdown/

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