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FUTURE TECHNOLOGY cryptographic schemes , such as RSA , which has long protected global data .
Beginning with work started several decades ago , IBM ’ s team of the world ’ s foremost cryptographic experts continue to lead the industry in the development of algorithms to protect data against future threats , which are now positioned to eventually replace today ’ s encryption schemes .
NIST ’ s newly published standards are designed to safeguard data exchanged across public networks , as well as for digital signatures for identity authentication . Now formalized , they will set the standard as the blueprints for governments and industries worldwide to begin adopting post-quantum cybersecurity strategies .
In 2016 , NIST asked cryptographers worldwide to develop and submit new , quantum-safe cryptographic schemes to be considered for future standardization . In 2022 , four encryption algorithms were selected for further evaluation from 69 submissions chosen for review : CRYSTALS-Kyber , CRYSTALS-Dilithium , Falcon and SPHINCS +.
In addition to continued evaluations to publish Falcon as the fourth official standard , NIST is continuing to identify and evaluate additional algorithms to diversify its toolkit of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms , including several others developed by IBM researchers .
IBM cryptographers are among those pioneering the expansion of these tools , including three newly submitted digital signatures schemes that have already been accepted for consideration by NIST and are undergoing the initial round of evaluation .
IBM ’ s mission in quantum computing is two-fold : to bring useful quantum computing to the world and to make the world quantum-safe .
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