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Events 2025

6th PQC Standardization Conference

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NIST plans to hold the 6th PQC Standardization Conference from September 24-26, 2025, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In August 2024, we published the first three post-quantum cryptographic standards, and work continues on additional standards needed to protect against future quantum computers. The conference will bring together stakeholders from academia, industry, and government—including submission teams from the candidates under evaluation—for in-depth discussions and collaborative engagement. As part of this event, we aim to foster a workshop-like atmosphere to support the ongoing development and refinement of the PQC standards.

Call for Papers (PDF)

Accepted Papers (PDF)

Important Dates:  

  • Submission Deadline:  June 16, 2025
  • Hotel Reservation Deadline:  August 23, 2025
  • Conference Registration Deadline: September 17, 2025
  • Conference Dates:  September 24-26, 2025

Inquiries:  [email protected]

Selected Presentations
September 24, 2025 Type
9:05 AM NIST PQC Standardization Project
Dustin Moody
Presentation
9:25 AM UOV: Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar
Jintai Ding
Presentation
9:45 AM QR-UOV
Hiroki Furue
Presentation
10:05 AM Mayo
Ward Beullens
Presentation
10:25 AM SNOVA
Po-En Tseng
Presentation
11:15 AM Security Analysis on UOV Families with Odd Characteristics: Using Symmetric Algebra
Boru Gong
Presentation
11:35 AM Exploiting SNOVA's Structure in the Wedge Product Attack
Hung Le
Presentation
11:55 AM That’s not my Signature! Fail Stop Signatures for a Post-Quantum World
Cecilia Boschini
Presentation
1:40 PM Masking FrodoKEM
Elie Eid
Presentation
2:00 PM Recent Contributions to the Physical Security of ML-DSA
Melissa Azouaoui
Presentation
2:20 PM Systematic Timing Leakage Analysis of NIST PQDSS Candidates: Tooling and Lessons Learned
Mahmudul Faisal AL Ameen
Presentation
2:40 PM Single Trace Side-Channel Attack on the MPC-in-the-Head Framework
Julie Godard
Presentation
3:00 PM mUOV: Masking the Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Digital Signature Scheme at First-and Higher-Order
Quinten Norga
Presentation
3:40 PM Post-Quantum Ratcheting for Signal
Rolfe Schmidt
Presentation
4:00 PM Post-Quantum Diversity for DNSSEC: Routine Performance, Resilient Fallback
Joe Harvey
Presentation
4:20 PM Efficient Hardware Acceleration for Post-Quantum Scheme HQC - From Component Perspective
Jiafeng Xie
Presentation
September 25, 2025 Type
9:00 AM FIPS 206: FN-DSA (Falcon)
Ray Perlner
Presentation
9:20 AM SPHINCS+ Smaller Parameter Sets
Quynh Dang
Presentation
9:40 AM SP 800-227: Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms
Gorjan Alagic
Presentation
10:00 AM FIPS 207: HQC-KEM
Angela Robinson
Presentation
10:50 AM MiRath
Loïc Bidoux
Presentation
11:10 AM SDitH
Thibauld Feneuil
Presentation
11:30 AM RYDE
Loïc Bidoux
Presentation
11:50 AM MQOM
Thibauld Feneuil
Presentation
12:10 PM Perk
Loïc Bidoux
Presentation
1:00 PM Learn about the New NIST SP 800-53Control Overlays for Securing AI Systems Project
 Presentation
2:00 PM NIST PQC Migration Project and Crypto-agility Project
William (Bill) Newhouse
Presentation
3:40 PM SPHINCSLET: An Area-Efficient Accelerator for the Full SPHINCS+ Digital Signature Algorithm
Sanjay Deshpande
Presentation
4:00 PM Optimizing HQC using Frobenius Additive FFT on a RISC-V-based System-on-Chip
Antonio Ras
Presentation
4:20 PM Efficient Threshold ML-DSA up to 6 parties
Guilhem Niot
Presentation
4:40 PM High-Performance FPGA Accelerator for the Post-quantum Signature Scheme CROSS
Patrick Karl
Presentation
September 26, 2025 Type
9:00 AM CROSS
Patrick Karl
Presentation
9:20 AM LESS
Edoardo Persichetti
Presentation
9:40 AM SQIsign
Luca De Feo
Presentation
10:00 AM HAWK
Ludo Pulles
Presentation
10:20 AM FAEST
Ward Beullens
Presentation
11:10 AM A Revision of CROSS Security: Proofs and Attacks for Multi-Round Fiat-Shamir Signatures
Michele Battagliola
Presentation
11:30 AM Hawk: Having Automorphisms Weakens Key
Ludo Pulles
Presentation
11:50 AM Sieving with Streaming Memory Access
Jintai Ding
Presentation
12:10 PM On the Security of Round 2 SNOVA
Jan Adriaan Leegwater
Presentation
2:00 PM A Comprehensive Study of the Signal Handshake Protocol: Bundled Authenticated Key Exchange
Ida Tucker
Presentation
2:20 PM (Yet another) Analysis of MLWE's performance impact on specific TLS Use-cases
Panos Kampanakis
Presentation
2:40 PM Namirial's explorations regarding recent PQC solutions
Giulio Di Clemente
Presentation

Event Details

Starts: September 24, 2025 - 09:00 AM EDT
Ends: September 26, 2025 - 04:30 PM EDT

Format: Hybrid Type: Conference

Agenda Register

Attendance Type: Open to public
Audience Type: Other, Academia, Government, Industry


Location

NIST
100 Bureau Drive
Administration Building / Green Auditorium
Gaithersburg, MD

Parent Project

See: Post-Quantum Cryptography

Related Topics

Security and Privacy: digital signatures, encryption, post-quantum cryptography

Created September 30, 2025