摘要
In as little as a decade from now,quantum computers may be able to break the cryptographic keys that currently protect everything from smartphone banking apps to email software.In July 2022,in anticipation of this threat,the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)announced the first group of encryption tools designed to fend off such attacks,the initial winners of a competition process initiated in 2016[1,2].
