News & Updates

NIST releases the initial public draft of SP 800-230, Additional SLH-DSA Parameter Sets for Limited Signature Use Cases. The comment period closes on June 12, 2026.

This guide demonstrates how organizations can discover, identify and label unstructured data using data classification practices. The public comment period is open through March 30, 2026.

This publication describes the basic definitions, properties, and applications of KEMs and provides recommendations for implementing and using KEMs securely.

The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published an initial public draft of NIST Cybersecurity White Paper (CSWP) 48, "Mappings of Migration to PQC Project Capabilities to Risk Framework Documents." Comments are due October 20, 2025.

HQC Announced as a 4th Round Selection. NIST Internal Report (IR) 8545 details the evaluation criteria, algorithm designs, and reasoning behind the selection.

The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-227, Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms, is now available for public comment. The public comment period is open through March 7, 2025.

The initial public draft of NIST Internal Report (IR) 8547,  Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards, is now available for public comment. The public comment period is open through January 10, 2025.

NIST publishes NIST Internal Report (IR) 8528, Status Report on the First Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process.

The Secretary of Commerce has approved three Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for post-quantum cryptography: FIPS 203, 204 and 205.

NIST requests comments on the initial public drafts of three Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) - FIPS 203, 204 and 205. The deadline to submit comments is November 22, 2023.

NIST has completed the reviews for all the “onramp” digital signature submissions received by the deadline. 

The NCCoE has posted the initial preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication 1800-38A, 

"Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for Considering the Implementation and Adoption of Quantum Safe Cryptography" for public comment. The comment period closes June 8, 2023.

NIST is requesting additional digital signature scheme proposals to be considered in the PQC standardization process.

NIST is announcing four Post-Quantum Cryptography candidates for standardization, plus candidates for a fourth round of analysis.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final project description for "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography."

NIST's NCCoE has released a Draft Project Description, "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography." The public comment period is open through July 7, 2021.

NIST's NCCoE has published "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Exploring Challenges Associated with Adopting and Using Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms."

NIST has published Special Publication (SP) 800-208, "Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes."

NIST is announcing the third round finalists of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process. More details are included in NISTIR 8309.

NIST has posted a draft Cybersecurity White Paper, "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Explore Challenges Associated with Adoption and Use of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms." The public comment period ends June 30, 2020.

NIST currently intends to approve both LMS and XMSS stateful hash-based signature schemes, and is seeking public comments on that proposed action by April 1, 2019.

After over a year of evaluation, NIST would like to announce the candidates that will be moving on to the 2nd round of the NIST PQC Standardization Process.

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-71, Recommendations for Key Establishment Using Symmetric Block Ciphers, addresses key establishment techniques that .....

NIST's Computer Security Division is seeking input on the development of standards for stateful hash-based signatures, including XMSS (see IETF RFC 8391).