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A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files\u2014making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum computers.<\/p>\n

Kyber, as the ransomware is called, has been around since at least last September<\/a> and quickly attracted attention<\/a> for the claim that it used ML-KEM<\/a>, short for Module Lattice-based Key Encapsulation Mechanism and is a standard shepherded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Kyber ransomware name comes from the alternate name for ML-KEM, which is also Kyber. For the rest of the article, Kyber refers to the ransomware; the algorithm is referred to as ML-KEM.<\/p>\n

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ML-KEM is an asymmetric encryption method for exchanging keys. It involves problems based on lattices, a structure in mathematics that quantum computers have no advantage in solving over classic computing. ML-KEM is designed to replace Elliptic Curve and RSA cryptosystems, both of which are based on problems that quantum computers with sufficient strength can tackle.<\/p>\n

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