Yo,

Tonight, I got to writing too late to go in-depth so I’m going to use this post to help plan out my writing.

call to action by NIST

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography

NIST summary

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms

chosen NIST

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected-algorithms-2022

Really good post summarizing everything

https://blog.cloudflare.com/nist-post-quantum-surprise/

Author’s publications

https://bas.westerbaan.name/

aes post quantum security

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1208.pdf

https://blog.boot.dev/cryptography/is-aes-256-quantum-resistant/

https://thequantuminsider.com/2020/04/30/is-aes-256-quantum-resistant/

grovers

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6712/is-aes-256-a-post-quantum-secure-cipher-or-not

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.325

I think I want to go off of Bas Westerbaan’s excellent post and learn about any questions I have.

The first question I have is about why is symmetric encryption post-quantum secure (you can see links above).

I also am curious about the competition itself.

It seems like I’m going to have to do A LOT of reading to understand this, which makes it hard to practice writing and explaining in an hour. I will need to play around with my cadence.

In my head, I know I’ll need to find extra time to focus and read up. I can make somedays read plus write notes or summary. Another option is to read sometime during the day or evening, write something quick about another topic, and get to writing the post the next day.

I definitely want to present the final knowledge is a cohesive, elegant format. I want posts that I can show off and allow for easy learning. It doesn’t have to be every post. I think what I should do is next month I should modify my writing format. Keep a more consistent, laid back posts that aren’t everyday and add a once a week high quality post. I can use the next week or two to plan that out and spend extra time researching.

I like this plan. I’ll just have to execute.

Sleep tight,

Lucas

ps

Thinking about it more I’d like to do some world building posts.

In my head quick posts are:

• media review

• world building (new)

• reflections

• why topic is important

• simple tech

• research