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This day is known among the security community as Q-Day.

Quantum computers are especially good at factoring, which can be used to crack encryption methods quickly.

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FIPS 205 uses the Sphincs+ algorithm, renamed to Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (SLH-DSA).

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