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		born-jre on Aug 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC It was not in NIST final competition, right ? Just alternate candidate.

aidenn0 on Aug 19, 2022 [–]

IIUC, NIST did not select a winner for post-quantum public-key-encryption, but rather winnowed the field to 4 potential candidates, and this is one of them.

tptacek on Aug 19, 2022 | [–]

No, it selected the CRYSTALS-Kyber KEM and then proceeded for an additional round to consider alternatives/understudy KEMs, of which SIKE was one potential one.

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