{"id":47684,"date":"2022-07-27T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-puts-nists-quantum-resistant-crypto-to-work-in-z16-mainframe\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:30:12","slug":"ibm-puts-nists-quantum-resistant-crypto-to-work-in-z16-mainframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-puts-nists-quantum-resistant-crypto-to-work-in-z16-mainframe\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM puts NIST\u2019s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe"},"content":{"rendered":"

IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto \u2013 using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended<\/a> by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).<\/p>\n

Quantum computers are expected to be so powerful they\u2019ll carve through conventional encryption, exposing secrets in seconds. China is felt to be stealing data<\/a> today, safe in the knowledge its future quantum computers will be able to decrypt it in the near future. Other data, such as health information, is required to be kept for decades and the encryption used to protect it probably won\u2019t survive the advent of quantum computers.<\/p>\n

To prevent such scenarios and offer long-term data security, NIST in 2017 initiated a post-quantum crypto project to develop ciphers that can be used with classical computers and survive decryption attempts made with quantum computers.<\/p>\n