Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes 667: South Korea Has a Parallel PQC Program with Separate Algorithms

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Show Notes

The NIST contest has not been the only government-led effort to discover qunatum-resistant algorithms. In this episode we describe South Korea's PQC contest, which is entirely independent of the NIST contest.

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