
The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday established a new initiative to coalesce and drive efforts department-wide to prepare for a world when quantum computing threatens current encryption algorithms. The Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative comes a day after the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the first four quantum resistant cryptographic algorithms following a six-year effort to design and vet encryption methods that could resist an attack from a future quantum computer.…