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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Just go read the original source, djb's blog post about it.

TL;DR: he thinks NIST either (through incompetence or NSA pressure) misrepresented NTRU vs. KYBER, and that KYBER-512 might be weaker than claimed so use KYBER-768.