NIST initially selected SIKE as a PQC key exchange candidate, then it was catastrophically broken by a classical attack in 2022. This demonstrates why rigorous standardisation matters and why BMIC uses only fully-approved NIST algorithms.
SIKE (Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation) was one of NIST’s PQC finalists, valued for its compact key sizes. In July 2022, researchers Castryck and Decru published a classical attack that completely broke SIKE in hours using a standard laptop. Years of expert review had missed the vulnerability.
If SIKE had been widely deployed as ECDH’s replacement before being broken, every system using it would have been instantly vulnerable. This near-miss demonstrates why NIST’s multi-year evaluation process exists and why deploying unvetted PQC algorithms is dangerous. Projects claiming quantum resistance with proprietary algorithms face this exact risk.
BMIC uses only NIST-published final standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA) that survived the complete evaluation process. The hybrid approach provides an additional safety net — even if a PQC algorithm were somehow broken, the classical ECDSA layer provides fallback security while upgrades are deployed.
Could ML-KEM be broken like SIKE? Extremely unlikely. SIKE was based on isogeny problems with less mathematical history. ML-KEM uses lattice problems studied for decades. The attack surfaces are completely different. However, BMIC’s hybrid approach provides protection even in this unlikely scenario.
Every day you wait, more of your public keys are being harvested. Intelligence agencies are running Harvest Now, Decrypt Later operations right now. Your wallet’s ECDSA keys are being collected and stored for the day quantum computers can crack them. That day is approaching faster than anyone expected.
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