Post Quantum Crypto Goes Mainstream?

Although people such as me have been talking about the threat to public key cryptography from quantum computers for years, and the alternatives that could be used, it seems that when Google announced that they were experimenting with a post quantum crypto scheme in Chrome it caught people's imagination.  Perhaps this marks the beginning of post quantum crypto entering the mainstream?

The scheme chosen by Google is the New Hope scheme.  It was proposed in a research paper relatively recently, although there have been two other papers that have appeared in conferences such as Crypto 2016 are also worth reading as they support the original work:

• Efficient algorithms for supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman
• NTRU Prime

both of which I've covered before in this blog as I did for another paper which is important in this work Frodo: Take off the ring! Practical, Quantum-Secure Key Exchange from LWE