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Could RSA-2048 Be Cracked By 2025?

One highlight for me of 2022 was the publishing of the Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards by NIST. These were Kyber for Key Exchange and Public Key Encryption, and Dilithium for Digital Signatures. Both of these methods use lattice cryptography, and which is robust against quantum computer attacks. Unfortunately, all of our existing public key methods — RSA, ECC and discrete logs — are not robust against a quantum…