✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition | Latacora

latacora.com · 4,714 words · saved by 1 readers

One of our favorite blog posts is our “crypto right answers” post. It’s intended to be an easy-to-use guide to help engineers pick the best cryptography choices without needing to go too far down a rabbit hole. With post-quantum cryptography (PQC) recently transitioning from an academic research topic to a more practical cryptography concern we figured it’s time for an update of our cryptography recommendations. One thing that makes recommending PQC challenging is that historically, we’ve been able to provide “better” answers for classical cryptography. Faster and bigger hashes, stronger password KDFs, easier-to-use primitives… These things all have the same fundamental “shape”: you can take an existing design and drop in something else to make it better. MD5 and BLAKE3 are not comparable in strength, but you can just use BLAKE3 in place of MD5 and get something that’s just far better with minimal API changes.

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition | Latacora Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition Last updated Jun 15, 2026 (first posted Jul 29, 2024) 22 minutes read 4651 Words ▶ Table of Contents One of our favorite blog posts is our " crypto right answers " post. It's intended to be an easy-to-use guide to help engineers pick the best cryptography choices without needing to go too far down a rabbit hole. With post-quantum cryptography (PQC) recently transitioning from an academic research topic to a more practical cryptography concern we figured it’s time for an update of our

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading