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by born-jre 1406 days ago
It was not in NIST final competition, right ? Just alternate candidate.
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IIUC, NIST did not select a winner for post-quantum public-key-encryption, but rather winnowed the field to 4 potential candidates, and this is one of them.
No, it selected the CRYSTALS-Kyber KEM and then proceeded for an additional round to consider alternatives/understudy KEMs, of which SIKE was one potential one.