Five years later, in July 2022, four winners have been announced and three of them are co-authored by PROMETHEUS’ researchers (European Horizon 2020 project in cryptography). One algorithm gives a way to securely encrypt data (CRYSTALS-Kyber) and the two others are addressing the case of digital signatures (CRYSTALS-Dilithium and FALCON).

This important result has a direct and broad impact since those four new algorithms provide, all over the world and for billions of users, a long-term protection of their privacy and a full confidentiality of their data, in the digital systems they are using every day.

This international recognition shows how strong is the research community in cryptography, based on decades of scientific effort in this domain.

The next two years will now be dedicated to a precise description of those new standards in cryptography, an important step for which we will also contribute by bringing our expertise and our mastery of those quantum-resistant algorithms.

To read more details about the algorithms selected by the NIST: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms