In this podcast episode, host Samantha Mabey talks to Brian LaMacchia, President of FARCASTER Consulting Group and former Distinguised Engineer for Cryptography at Microsoft, about the decades of research that’s gone into Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC), and how the pace and intensity of academic PQ research compares with previous eras of cryptography. They also discuss the standardization process of PQC, including the algorithms under review in the NIST competition today, and how PQC standards are likely to evolve in the future.