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by jnwatson 1804 days ago
In 2005, The NSA began recommended migrating away from RSA and onto ECC algorithms for its customers' classified use cases. [1]

In 2018, it paused that recommendation, essentially arguing that if you haven't migrated already, wait until the quantum-resistant algorithms are well vetted to avoid a second migration.

1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_B_Cryptography]