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> The solution, which will be available next month, is actually the product of a partnership between BlackBerry and Isara Corporation, a company whose mission i
by CiPHPerCoder 8y ago
> The solution, which will be available next month, is actually the product of a partnership between BlackBerry and Isara Corporation, a company whose mission is to build quantum-safe security solutions. BlackBerry is using Isara’s cryptographic libraries to help sign and protect code as security evolves.
That is extremely unhelpful, Tech Crunch.
Let's take a look at what Isara is researching.
https://www.isara.com/research-publications/ https://www.isara.com/research-publications/
https://www.isara.com/qtesla/ https://www.isara.com/qtesla/
https://www.isara.com/qc-mdpc-kem/ https://www.isara.com/qc-mdpc-kem/
Okay, so the article is specifically talking about digital signatures, so they're almost certainly implementing qTESLA (or a Blackberry-specific variant thereof), which is a lattice-based signature algorithm.
https://qtesla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/qTESLA_v2.2_08.27.2018.pdf https://qtesla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/qTESLA_v2.2_08...
https://github.com/qtesla/qTesla https://github.com/qtesla/qTesla
If this does turn out that they're implementing qTESLA (which is committed to the public domain), the headline "races ahead of security surve" will prove to be needlessly sensationalist.