UK agency warns post-quantum cryptography migration will be ‘very complicated’

New guidance published Friday by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has cautioned that the migration to post-quantum cryptography will be “a very complicated undertaking.” As explained in the NCSC’s blog post, more than just mathematics will be necessary to meet the threat that quantum computers pose to traditional public-key cryptography, as some

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