#NIST Selects #HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post #Quantum #Encryption
HQC is the latest algorithm chosen by NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography project, which has overseen efforts since 2016 to head off potential threats from #quantumcomputers. HQC will take its place alongside the four algorithms NIST selected previously. Three of those algorithms have been incorporated into finished standards, including #MLKEM, which forms the core of the standard called #FIPS203.
https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/03/12/nist-selects-hqc-as-fifth-algorithm-for-post-quantum-encryption/

In order to avoid mindless copy-paste choices for #pqc, how could an interested party begin to approach gaining a working understanding of #FIPS203 #FIPS204 #FIPS205 ? My last instruction was at UPenn by @mattblaze in the late 1990s. I know nothing about elliptic curve algorithms, let alone whatever this new hotness is. Is it possible to understand these ideas without maths like topology?