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As Quantum Computing Threats Loom, Microsoft Updates Its Core Crypto Library

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic f...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The library, started in 2006, provides operations and algorithms developers can use to safely implement secure encryption, decryption, signing, verification, hashing, and key exchange in the apps they create. In Monday's post, Microsoft Principal Product Manager Lead Aabha Thipsay wrote: "PQC algorithms offer a promising solution for the future of cryptography, but they also come with some trade-offs.

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