The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a statement stating that it is looking for candidate post-quantum algorithms.
The Institute (NIST), of course, is worried in advance about her fate encryptions after the release of quantum computing systems that will be able to break every key encryption in minimal time.
The agency explains in its announcement that once these computing systems become widely available, "they would seriously jeopardize the confidentiality and integrity of digital communications on the Internet."network and elsewhere."
The specific announcement, as you understood, invites scientific programmers to develop "new standards of public key encryption, digital signatures, and in general algorithms that will be able to protect sensitive government information even after the widespread circulation of quantum computers. "
NIST estimates that it will have something useful within a year, and has set 30 in 2017 in November. Until then, you can submit your suggestions.
We should mention that if you approve a proposal, it will not be released directly to the general public, as it will take at least 20 years of testing.
According to the Institute: "Historically, it takes almost two decades to develop modern public infrastructure of our encryption keys."
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/post-quantum-crypto/