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		adastra22 on July 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NIST announces first PQC algoritms to be standardi... Non-cryptographers should not be implementing NIST standards. You should be using higher level APIs written by cryptographers which do employ NIST standards in the details.

astrange on July 5, 2022 | [–]

Implementing them for fun might turn you into a cryptographer, though, especially (or only?) if you manage to find everything you get wrong.

oconnore on July 6, 2022 | [–]

If you're including cryptography in a system design, you are almost certainly relying on NIST standards to select algorithms.

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