The standard, called HQC, is a backup for the main “post-quantum cryptography” algorithm NIST finalized for general encryption known as Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism, or ML-KEM.

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NIST announced this week it selected an encryption algorithm called HQC as a second line of defense. HQC is not meant to replace ML-KEM, according to Dustin Moody, the mathematician who heads the NIST ...

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the HQC algorithm for its ongoing efforts to develop a general encryption to address future cyberthreats from quantum computers.

Last year, NIST published an encryption standard based on a quantum-resistant algorithm called ML-KEM. The new algorithm, called HQC, will serve as a backup defense in case quantum computers are ...

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