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CRYSTALS-Kyber was designed by an academic team, not a government (though a government standards body refereed the competition that selected it; that competition, in turn, was driven by technical feedback that came predominantly from academic cryptography teams around the world). In general, with some exceptions (like curve isogenies), the "math" behind PQ crypto is pretty well established; it was just less attractive than curves were for performance reasons, but is now more attractive if you presume curves will be broken in 20 years by QC.


Yet if you followed the money those programs are funded by government adjacent entities that usually have 3 letters.


None of those researchers have been subverted by academic grants.


But those grants specifically influence that which is researched




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