Fixing on Falcon

Here is a piece of news that might read as a footnote outside the cryptographic engineering world: Falcon, the post-quantum signature scheme on its way to becoming FIPS 206 under the name FN-DSA, can now sign without floating-point arithmetic. PQShield announced the result with a CRYPTO 2026 paper behind it from their researchers and colleagues at the University of Rennes, and the announcement is…