Be it a privacy issue or yet another zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, more often than not I’m pulling my (imaginary) hair out while writing about Google. But this month is different. This month, I have nothing but praise for the Big G. Let’s start with quantum cryptography, shall we? Yes, I know it’s something of a Sheldon Cooper subject, but it was delivered with much less comedic intent.
No matter the complexity of the underlying concepts or the overarching hyperbole surrounding vendor announcements, quantum cryptography is something you’ll have to get used to sooner or later. Given the rate of technological progress and the billions being spent on it, I’d say sooner is a good guess.
I thought I’d check my work archive and discovered the first time I wrote an article about quantum cryptography was back in 2010. A lot has happened in the 13 years since. Not least, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum cryptography (PCQ) standardisation process (). The two primary public-key cryptographic algorithms selected to help protect data as the quantum computing era dawns were Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices (CRYSTALS) Kyber and Dilithium.
