Le NIST sélectionne HQC comme second standard de chiffrement post-quantique

Direction | le Apr 23, 2025 à 05:18 PM

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just made official the standardization of the HQC (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic) algorithm, the fruit of collaboration between the XLIM laboratory (University of Limoges / CNRS) and the Mathematical Institut of Bordeaux (CNRS / University of Bordeaux / Bordeaux INP). This post-quantum encryption, based on error-correcting codes, is becoming one of the new international standards in digital security, alongside the ML-KEM algorithm. It will help protect digital exchanges against future threats posed by quantum computing.

Congratulations to Gilles Zémor and his colleagues in the XLIM laboratory on this outstanding achievement!

Find out more:

• NIST press release
• A detailed article from NIST
• CNRS innovation article
• An article by the University of Limoges