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What you got now as new standards is already the result of multiple iterations of improvements in key size reductions and performance improvements. But you'll l
by hannob 2y ago
What you got now as new standards is already the result of multiple iterations of improvements in key size reductions and performance improvements. But you'll likely not get drop-in replacements for existing public key crypto in post-quantum variations. It appears signatures are even more challenging regarding size than encryption in the post-quantum world.
It may be worth noting that choosing the algorithms that are now chosen, which are primarily lattice-based, is already kinda a compromise. They're not the ones with the highest trust in security, which would've been McEliece and SPHINCS (though the latter has been standardized as a fallback). But those come with key and signature sizes that are entirely impractical for the most common use cases.
It appears most of the crypto community came around thinking that the somewhat-smaller lattice algos are now "almost certainly secure". But surely there's at least one famous cryptographer raising his voice that he still has concerns.