{"id":20000,"date":"2020-08-04T08:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=20000"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:51","slug":"nist-finalists-for-post-quantum-security-standards-include-research-developed-by-prof-peikert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/04\/nist-finalists-for-post-quantum-security-standards-include-research-developed-by-prof-peikert\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists for post-quantum security standards include U-M research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Chris Peikert (Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications &amp; Marketing)\" class=\"wp-image-20001\"\/><figcaption>Chris Peikert (Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications &amp; Marketing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Quantum computer hold the potential to solve certain computational problems much more quickly than classical computers can. But with the new capabilities come unfortunate drawbacks: several of these problems form the foundation of our current encryption techniques. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/07\/nist-finalists-for-post-quantum-security-standards-include-research-results-developed-by-prof-chris-peikert\/\">A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prepare for this possibility, in 2017 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated a multi-stage process to standardize a set of post-quantum cybersecurity standards. Last week, NIST revealed its selection of seven finalist submissions and eight alternates for the third round of its post-quantum cryptography standardization process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chris Peikert<\/strong>, professor of theoretical computer science, is a primary designer and author of one of the alternates, called\u00a0FrodoKEM. In addition, two other finalists are directly based on Peikert\u2019s research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computer hold the potential to solve certain computational problems much more quickly than classical computers can. But with the new capabilities come unfortunate drawbacks: several of these problems form the foundation of our current encryption techniques. A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded. To prepare for this possibility, in 2017 the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/04\/nist-finalists-for-post-quantum-security-standards-include-research-developed-by-prof-peikert\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[852],"class_list":["post-20000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-engineering"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-e1598825010102.jpg",631,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-768x511.jpg",665,442,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-e1598825010102.jpg",631,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-665x442.jpg",665,442,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-peikert-content-e1598825010102.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Quantum computer hold the potential to solve certain computational problems much more quickly than classical computers can. But with the new capabilities come unfortunate drawbacks: several of these problems form the foundation of our current encryption techniques. A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded. To prepare for this possibility,&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20300,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000\/revisions\/20300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}