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HQC: key encapsulation based on codes

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...

Key Negotiation in the Post-Quantum Era

09 Sep

Introduction Cryptography, understood as the set of schemes for protecting information, is typically divided into symmetric or private key cryptography and asymmetric or public key cryptography. Symmetric encryption involves schemes...