NIST Wants PQC Code From You

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:10 AM, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The middle article doesn't define what is a "public-key post-quantum
> standards."
> Just as a guess, I'm thinking this is a public-key system that is resistant
> to quantum-computation methods.  True?  But how do we know?

They want PQC backed versions of functionality of three existing
Standards FIPS 186-4, NIST SP 800-56A and NIST SP 800-56B.
The CFP has some more general info...

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/post-quantum-crypto/documents/call-for-proposals-final-dec-2016.pdf