The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology chose four encryption tools as part of its post-quantum cryptographic standard, InfoSecurity Magazine reports. The goal of the effort is to develop the first-ever encryption algorithms for the PQC standard that could weather an attack by a quantum computer. The QPC standard will reportedly be completed in two years. For general encryption to access secure websites, NIST chose the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm, and for digital signatures, the three algorithms NIST selected were CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON and SPHINCS+.