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Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC

Round 3 Submissions

Official comments on the Third Round Candidate Algorithms should be submitted using the "Submit Comment" link for the appropriate algorithm. Comments from the pqc-forum Google group subscribers will also be forwarded to the pqc-forum Google group list. We will periodically post and update the comments received to the appropriate algorithm.

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History of Round 3 Updates

Round 3 Finalists: Public-key Encryption and Key-establishment Algorithms

Algorithm Algorithm Information Submitters Comments
Classic McEliece
(merger of Classic McEliece
and NTS-KEM

Zip File (97MB)
IP Statements

Website

Martin R. Albrecht
Daniel J. Bernstein
Tung Chou
Carlos Cid
Jan Gilcher
Tanja Lange
Varun Maram
Ingo von Maurich
Rafael Misoczki
Ruben Niederhagen
Kenneth G. Paterson
Edoardo Persichetti
Christiane Peters
Peter Schwabe
Nicolas Sendrier
Jakub Szefer
Cen Jung Tjhai
Martin Tomlinson
Wen Wang

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CRYSTALS-KYBER

Zip File (7MB)

Website

Peter Schwabe
Roberto Avanzi
Joppe Bos
Leo Ducas
Eike Kiltz
Tancrede Lepoint
Vadim Lyubashevsky
John M. Schanck
Gregor Seiler
Damien Stehle
Jintai Ding

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NTRU

Zip File (6MB)
IP Statements

Website

Cong Chen
Oussama Danba
Jeffrey Hoffstein
Andreas Hulsing
Joost Rijneveld
John M. Schanck
Peter Schwabe
William Whyte
Zhenfei Zhang
Tsunekazu Saito
Takashi Yamakawa
Keita Xagawa

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SABER

Zip File (5MB)
IP Statements

Website

Jan-Pieter D'Anvers
Angshuman Karmakar
Sujoy Sinha Roy
Frederik Vercauteren
Jose Maria Bermudo Mera
Michiel Van Beirendonck
Andrea Basso

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Round 3 Finalists: Digital Signature Algorithms

Algorithm Algorithm Information Submitters Comments
CRYSTALS-DILITHIUM

Zip File (11MB)
IP Statements

Website

Vadim Lyubashevsky
Leo Ducas
Eike Kiltz
Tancrede Lepoint
Peter Schwabe
Gregor Seiler
Damien Stehle
Shi Bai
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FALCON

Zip File (4MB)

Website

Thomas Prest
Pierre-Alain Fouque
Jeffrey Hoffstein
Paul Kirchner
Vadim Lyubashevsky
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Ricosset
Gregor Seiler
William Whyte
Zhenfei Zhang

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Rainbow

Zip File (595MB)

Website
Jintai Ding
Ming-Shing Chen
Albrecht Petzoldt
Dieter Schmidt
Bo-Yin Yang
Matthias Kannwischer
Jacques Patarin

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Alternate Candidates: Public-key Encryption and Key-establishment Algorithms

Algorithm Algorithm Information Submitters Comments
BIKE

Zip File (34MB)
IP Statements

Website
Nicolas Aragon
Paulo Barreto
Slim Bettaieb
Loic Bidoux
Olivier Blazy
Jean-Christophe Deneuville
Phillipe Gaborit
Shay Gueron
Tim Guneysu
Carlos Aguilar Melchor
Rafael Misoczki
Edoardo Persichetti
Nicolas Sendrier
Jean-Pierre Tillich
Gilles Zemor
Valentin Vasseur
Santosh Ghosh
Jan Richter-Brokmann

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FrodoKEM Zip File (31MB)

Website
Michael Naehrig
Erdem Alkim
Joppe Bos
Leo Ducas
Karen Easterbrook
Brian LaMacchia
Patrick Longa
Ilya Mironov
Valeria Nikolaenko
Christopher Peikert
Ananth Raghunathan
Douglas Stebila

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HQC

Zip File (11MB)
IP Statements

Website

Carlos Aguilar Melchor
Nicolas Aragon
Slim &Bettaieb
Loïc Bidoux
Olivier Blazy
Jean-Christophe Deneuville
Philippe Gaborit
Edoardo Persichetti
Gilles Zémor
Jurjen Bos
Arnaud Dion
Jerome Lacan
Jean-Marc Robert
Pascal Veron

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NTRU Prime

Zip File (6MB)
IP Statements

Website
Daniel J. Bernstein
Billy Bob Brumley
Ming-Shing Chen
Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup
Tanja Lange
Adrian Marotzke
Bo-Yuan Peng
Nicola Tuveri
Christine van Vredendaal
Bo-Yin Yang
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SIKE Zip File (11MB)
IP Statements
 

Website

David Jao
Reza Azarderakhsh
Matthew Campagna
Craig Costello
Luca De Feo
Basil Hess
Amir Jalali
Brian Koziel
Brian LaMacchia
Patrick Longa
Michael Naehrig
Joost Renes
Vladimir Soukharev
David Urbanik
Geovandro Pereira
Koray Karabina
Aaron Hutchinson
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Alternate Candidates: Digital Signature Algorithms

Algorithm Algorithm Information Submitters Comments
GeMSS

Zip File (327MB)

Website

A. Casanova
J.-C. Faugere
G. Macario-Rat
J. Patarin
L. Perret
J. Ryckeghem

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Picnic Zip File (144MB)
 

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Greg Zaverucha
Melissa Chase
David Derler
Steven Goldfeder
Claudio Orlandi
Sebastian Ramacher
Christian Rechberger
Daniel Slamanig
Jonathan Katz
Xiao Wang
Vladmir Kolesnikov
Daniel Kales

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SPHINCS+

Zip File (230MB)

Website

Andreas Hulsing
Daniel J. Bernstein
Christoph Dobraunig
Maria Eichlseder
Scott Fluhrer
Stefan-Lukas Gazdag
Panos Kampanakis
Stefan Kolbl
Tanja Lange
Martin M Lauridsen
Florian Mendel
Ruben Niederhagen
Christian Rechberger
Joost Rijneveld
Peter Schwabe
Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Bas Westerbaan
Ward Beullens

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Created January 03, 2017, Updated February 26, 2024