[IPP] Fwd: [pqc-forum] Announcement of the Onarmp Round 2 Candidates

Hi,

FYI - updates on NIST competition for additional PQC signature algorithms
and 6th PQC conference on 24-26 September 2025.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: 'Moody, Dustin (Fed)' via pqc-forum <pqc-forum@list.nist.gov>
Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Subject: [pqc-forum] Announcement of the Onarmp Round 2 Candidates
To: pqc-forum <pqc-forum@list.nist.gov>

*NIST Announces 14 Candidates to Advance to the Second Round of the
Additional Digital Signatures for the Post-Quantum Cryptography
Standardization Process*

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:

   - CROSS
   - FAEST
   - HAWK
   - LESS
   - MAYO
   - Mirath (merger of MIRA/MiRitH)
   - MQOM
   - PERK
   - QR-UOV
   - RYDE
   - SDitH
   - SNOVA
   - SQIsign
   - UOV

NIST Internal Report (IR) 8528 describes the evaluation criteria and
selection process, and questions may be directed to *pqc-comments@nist.gov
<pqc-comments@nist.gov>*. 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.

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.

NIST is tentatively planning to hold a 6th NIST PQC Standardization
Conference from September 24-26, 2025, in person at NIST in Gaithersburg,
Maryland.

The NIST PQC team

Links:
*https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2024/pqc-digital-signature-second-round-announcement
<https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2024/pqc-digital-signature-second-round-announcement>*
*https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/pqc-dig-sig
<https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/pqc-dig-sig>*

---------- Extra note from Dustin Moody w/ link to NIST IR 8528 (report on
first round of ADSS activity ----------

Here is the link to NISTIR 8528, *Status Report on the First Round of the
Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography
Standardization Process:*

https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8528/final