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      <title>The Post-Quantum Field Guide</title>
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      <description>Last 10 notes on The Post-Quantum Field Guide</description>
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    <title>ACVP and PQC Validation</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/ACVP-and-PQC-Validation</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/ACVP-and-PQC-Validation</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ PQC validation runs on three programs, ACVP-driven CAVP algorithm testing, CMVP module validation under FIPS 140-3, and the reason "uses ML-KEM" is not the same as "CAVP and CMVP validated." ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AES-(Advanced-Encryption-Standard)</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ AES is the symmetric block cipher standardized by NIST in FIPS 197, offered in 128-, 192-, and 256-bit key sizes, and it survives the quantum transition because Grover's algorithm only halves its strength, so the one move worth making is standardizing on AES-256. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AES-128</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AES-128</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ AES-128 is the 128-bit key version of the AES block cipher, and Grover's algorithm halves its effective strength to about 64 bits, which is why long-lived data should move to AES-256. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AES-192</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AES-192</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AES-192</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ AES-192 is the 192-bit key version of the AES block cipher, the middle of the three key sizes, and it survives the quantum transition because Grover's algorithm only halves its strength to about 96 bits. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AES-256</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AES-256</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AES-256</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ AES-256 is the 256-bit key version of the AES block cipher, and it survives the quantum transition because Grover's algorithm only halves its strength, leaving roughly 128 bits of security. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>ANSSI Cryptographic Mechanisms</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/ANSSI-Cryptographic-Mechanisms</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/ANSSI-Cryptographic-Mechanisms</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ ANSSI Cryptographic Mechanisms is France's national rulebook for choosing and sizing cryptography, and its post-quantum position is hybrid-first, combining a classical scheme with a post-quantum one through the transition rather than moving to a single post-quantum algorithm. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>ANSSI vs BSI vs NCSC vs NSA on Hybrid</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/ANSSI-vs-BSI-vs-NCSC-vs-NSA-on-Hybrid</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/ANSSI-vs-BSI-vs-NCSC-vs-NSA-on-Hybrid</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ France, Germany, the UK, and the US have published four different positions on whether post-quantum cryptography should be deployed alongside a classical algorithm, and the disagreement comes from each authority hedging a different failure mode rather than from any of them being wrong. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AWS-LC</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AWS-LC</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/AWS-LC</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ AWS-LC is Amazon's open-source C cryptographic library, and with its TLS companion s2n-tls and Rust binding aws-lc-rs it was among the first FIPS-validated paths to post-quantum ML-KEM key exchange. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Authentication</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/Authentication</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/Authentication</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Authentication is the process of verifying that a party really is who it claims to be, distinct from authorization, and the certificate-based version that secures the internet rests on classical public-key signatures that a quantum computer running Shor's algorithm can forge. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>BIKE</title>
    <link>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/BIKE</link>
    <guid>https://fieldguide.lamarrlabs.com/BIKE</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ BIKE is a code-based key-encapsulation mechanism built on QC-MDPC codes that NIST studied in its fourth round and did not select, choosing HQC as the code-based backup instead because HQC's decoding-failure analysis was more stable. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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