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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>FYI - updates on NIST competition for additional PQC signature algorithms and 6th PQC conference on 24-26 September 2025.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">'Moody, Dustin (Fed)' via pqc-forum</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:pqc-forum@list.nist.gov">pqc-forum@list.nist.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 10:02 AM<br>Subject: [pqc-forum] Announcement of the Onarmp Round 2 Candidates<br>To: pqc-forum <<a href="mailto:pqc-forum@list.nist.gov">pqc-forum@list.nist.gov</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg8970323348214439949">
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<b>NIST Announces 14 Candidates to Advance to the Second Round of the Additional Digital Signatures for the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process</b></div>
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After over a year of evaluation, NIST has selected 14 candidates for the second round of the Additional Digital Signatures for the NIST PQC Standardization Process. The advancing public-key encryption and key-establishment algorithms are:</div>
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NIST Internal Report (IR) 8528 describes the evaluation criteria and selection process, and questions may be directed to
<span style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a href="mailto:pqc-comments@nist.gov" id="m_8970323348214439949OWA148a3b70-9503-69d2-64b6-95e5c7d39d45" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">pqc-comments@nist.gov</a></u></span>. NIST thanks all of the candidate submission
teams for their efforts in this standardization process as well as the cryptographic community at large, which helped analyze the signature schemes.</div>
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Moving forward, the second-round candidates have the option of submitting updated specifications and implementations (i.e., “tweaks”). NIST will provide more details to the submission teams in a separate message. This second phase of evaluation and review is
estimated to last 12-18 months.</div>
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NIST is tentatively planning to hold a 6th NIST PQC Standardization Conference from September 24-26, 2025, in person at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland.</div>
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The NIST PQC team</div>
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<u><a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2024/pqc-digital-signature-second-round-announcement" id="m_8970323348214439949OWAdcfdb9ce-6704-9bbe-a7a6-fbafe5c5ff3f" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2024/pqc-digital-signature-second-round-announcement</a></u></div>
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<u><a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/pqc-dig-sig" id="m_8970323348214439949OWA064fa8c1-6712-b4d7-3ac7-3e69def5369a" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/pqc-dig-sig</a></u></div>
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<div>Here is the link to NISTIR 8528, <span style="color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit"><i><font size="2">Status
Report on the First Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes
for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process:</font></i></span></div><div><br></div><a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8528/final" target="_blank">https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8528/final</a>
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