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New post-quantum digital signatures: NIST announces the third round candidates

Introduction On May 14, 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the schemes selected for the third round of the additional process for standardizing post-quantum digital signatures. With the...

HQC: key encapsulation based on codes

17 Nov

Introduction In 2022, the third round conclusion of the NIST standardization process on post-quantum cryptography selected a key encapsulation mechanism (CRYSTALS-Kyber/ML-KEM), three digital signature schemes (CRYSTALS-Dilithium/ML-DSA, Falcon/FN-DSA and SPHINCS+/SLH-DSA) and opened a fourth round devoted to evaluating an additional...

Cybersecurity and the implementation of smart working

25 Nov

Faced with the unexpected health crisis, institutions and companies around the world are trying to facilitate the implementation of smart working through the dispersion of adequate rules and procedures. The...