First Rainbow, Now SIKE?  No Qubits Needed to Crack Another NIST PQC Algo

…[E]ncryption algorithm that was supposed to stand up to attacks from the future’s most powerful computers was recently laid low by a much simpler machine…

…SIKE—which stands for Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation—was one of NIST’s secondary finalists, but a recently discovered cyberattack managed to break SIKE relatively easily…

…[I]t only took an hour for the little machine to unwind SIKE’s supposedly tricksy encryption. 

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