Quantum computers pose a huge threat to security, and the NIST wants your help

It’s no secret that quantum computers could render many of today’s encryption methods useless, and now the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology wants the public to help it head off that threat.

The federal agency recently published a report focusing on cryptography in a quantum world that outlines a long-term approach for avoiding the problem before it happens.

“There has been a lot of research into quantum computers in recent years, and everyone from major computer companies to the government want their cryptographic algorithms to be what we call ‘quantum resistant,'” said NIST mathematician Dustin Moody. “So if and when someone does build a large-scale quantum computer, we want to have algorithms in place that it can’t crack.”

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