International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Abstract
In August 2015 the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
released a major policy statement on the need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This announcement will be a great stimulus to the
development, standardization, and commercialization of new quantumsafe
algorithms. However, certain peculiarities in the wording and timing
of the statement have puzzled many people and given rise to much
speculation concerning the NSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and
quantum-safe cryptography. Our purpose is to attempt to evaluate some
of the theories that have been proposed
