technical NEWS AND UPDATES

First post-quantum cryptography approval from NIST..

This is a short but very important update for the project. In mid-2016 the idea for a fully post-quantum secure ledger was conceived and one of the really tough decisions was which signature scheme to use. Eventually XMSS was chosen for it’s cryptographic properties — but this was not an easy choice given it is stateful and requires significant computation prior to first use. A small number of other projects utilise variants of one-time hash-based signatures but QRL is the only crypto asset or blockchain which uses XMSS to protect the entire ledger.