Root Causes 235: What Is Lattice-based Cryptography?

26/07/2022 26 min
Root Causes 235: What Is Lattice-based Cryptography?

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Episode Synopsis

The recent winners of the NIST post-quantum cryptography contest are strongly focused on lattice-based encryption. In this episode we explain at a high level what this cryptographic approach entails and why lattice-based algorithms fared so well in the NIST search.