Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography

By Lidong Chen, S. Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Dustin Moody, R. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Daniel Smith-Tone. 2016

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The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation’s measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and technical analyses to advance the development and productive use of information technology. ITL’s responsibilities include the development of management, administrative, technical, and physical standards and guidelines for the cost-effective security and privacy of other than national security-related information in federal information systems. Abstract In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers – machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult or intractable for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will be able to break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in use. This would seriously compromise the confidentiality and integrity of digital communications on the Internet and elsewhere. The goal of post-quantum cryptography (also called quantum-resistant cryptography) is to develop cryptographic systems that are secure against both quantum and classical computers, and can interoperate with existing communications protocols and networks. This Internal Report shares the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s current understanding about the status of quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography, and outlines NIST’s initial plan to move forward in this space. The report also recognizes the challenge of moving to new cryptographic infrastructures and therefore emphasizes the need for agencies to focus on crypto agility.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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The Road Towards 6G: A Comprehensive Survey (2021, methodology): “An example of symmetric cryptography that is widely used today is advanced encryption standard (AES), which has been standardized in 2001 by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conﬁdentiality and integrity.”
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Classifications and Applications of Physical Layer Security Techniques for Confidentiality: A Comprehensive Survey (2019, background): “8 Interested readers are recommended to take a look at the recently published report about this issue by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [173].”