alt Hacker NewsGnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
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> introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryption algorithm
Funny to read 1-liner changelog versus the plethora of articles just few years ago along the line of "Quantum computer, it might just change our entire lives and make privacy impossible!".
The simple addition (of a not so simple algorithm) to the software (and few others, e.g. OpenSSL) and voila, me can move on with our daily lives. Cryptography and computational complexity are truly amazing.
been thinking about this a bit. someone just tell me what algo to use and ill start using it now. are the quantum-resistant cryptos significantly slower?
GnuPG Version 2.5.19
The 2.5 series are improvements for 64 bit Windows and the introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryption algorithm.
The old 2.4 series reaches end-of-life in just two months.
The Snowden quote at the bottom of every single Werner Koch email has been living rent-free in my head since 2013. Also the fact that this project has been running since the late 90s, financed almost entirely by donations, and is quietly protecting basically all serious encrypted communication on the planet — and the announcement still goes out as a plain text email to a mailing list. No Medium post. No Twitter thread. No 'we're excited to share'. Just: here's the tarball, here's the SHA-1, verify it. Absolute last line of defense energy.