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LONDON and OXFORD, England, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/
PQShield, the cybersecurity company specialising in post-quantum cryptography, today announces that it is further strengthening its cryptographic hardware team with the appointment of Ben Marshall, the editor and main author of the RISC-V K Cryptography Extension, as a Cryptography Engineer. Ben will continue to contribute to
RISC-V International s cryptography standardisation efforts while also working on PQShield s post-quantum hardware architecture.
While quantum computers offer enormous potential benefits to society, they also pose a significant risk to information security, as they will be able to easily break the public-key encryption widely relied on to protect sensitive data. Because of this, engineers and scientists around the world are working to develop
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