B.S. Rawal
Grambling State University, Louisiana, United States
Keywords: PQC, Quantum Key Distribution, Quantum Safe
The very rapid growth of quantum computing has posed a major threat to the digital security of our modern day. In particular, Shor's algorithm has the potential to break very widely used standard encryption methods like RSA and ECC. Remember that these known methods rely on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. The urgency of our now cryptographic landscape can be explained by this concept called "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later". The 'bad guys' are currently intercepting and storing data, hoping they will be able to decrypt it once we have quantum computers capable of running Shor's algorithm. In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finalized the first global PQC standards. Among the solutions they standardized were ML-KEM (formerly Kyber) and ML-DSA (Dilithium). We suggest adding additional security for smaller lattice-based PQC systems so that our current network system can handle them without significant delays. We proposed other cryptographic primitives to make the most popular cryptosystems quantum safe.