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Wouter Castryck
A cryptography researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium who, together with Thomas Decru, discovered an effective classical attack on SIKE, breaking the post-quantum cryptographic scheme in 2022.
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Oct 12
In 2022, Wouter Castryck and Thomas Decru of KU Leuven in Belgium used a mathematical breakthrough on classical computers to recover SIKE's private key in about one hour, and the attack does not require a quantum computer.
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