The National Security Agency is assisting with an effort to define a new encryption standard that's unbreakable by the quantum computers of the future, and the agency has promised it won't build secret vulnerabilities into the standard.
The National Security Agency is assisting with an effort to define a new encryption standard that's unbreakable by the quantum computers of the future, and the agency has promised it won't build secret vulnerabilities into the standard.
The NSA has national security interests that depend on strong encryption, but it also has competing interests in conducting surveillance on a wide range of targets, some cybersecurity experts noted. Quantum computing could make it"trivial" to break current encryption schemes, said Mike Parkin, a senior technical engineer at Vulcan Cyber, a cybersecurity provider."The NSA has some of the finest cryptographers in the world, and well-founded rumors have circulated for years about their efforts to place back doors in encryption software, operating systems, and hardware," he said.
However, a NIST spokesman said NSA's involvement in the project is"limited." The NSA provided feedback as a stakeholder on its"priorities and plans for post-quantum cryptography in national security systems" and on related efforts in standards development organizations, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, he said.
NIST plans to announce the algorithms selected for the new standard in the next few weeks. After that, it will take about a year to write draft standards, which will then be opened up to public comment. NIST expects to publish finalized standards in 2024.
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