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Audio long-read: The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers

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The Future of Cryptography

The us. National institute of standards and technology, or nist, in gaithersburg, maryland is set to make a decision on which algorithms will become standard. In the next couple of months, it will select a few winners and then publish official versions of those algaritms. Similar organizations in other countries, from france to china, will make their own announcements. But that will be only the beginning of a long process of updating the world's crypto systems,. A change that will affect aspect of our lives on line. Although the hope is that it will be invisible to the average internet user.

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