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Automotive Cybersecurity Community of Interest (COI)
The automotive industry is facing significant challenges from increased cybersecurity risk and adoption of AI and opportunities from rapid technological innovations. NIST is setting up this community of interest (COI) to allow the industry, academia, and government to discuss, comment, and provide input on the potential work that NIST is doing which will affect the automotive industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cryptography Cryptographic agility Migration to...
Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography MPTC
The multi-party paradigm of threshold cryptography enables threshold schemes, for a secure distribution of trust in the operation of cryptographic primitives. 2025-March-27: NIST IR 8214C 2pd has been published. This second public draft of The NIST Threshold Call improves over the initial public draft (Jan 2023), and opens a period of public comments until late 2025-April-30. 2025: NIST IR 8214B ipd, with notes on Threshold EdDSA, is being revised to integrate notes about related protocol...
Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC
Short URL:  https://www.nist.gov/pqcrypto For a plain-language introduction to post-quantum cryptography, go to: What Is Post-Quantum Cryptography? HQC was selected for standardization on March 11, 2025. NIST IR 8545, Status Report on the Fourth Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process is now available. FIPS 203, FIPS 204 and FIPS 205, which specify algorithms derived from CRYSTALS-Dilithium, CRYSTALS-KYBER and SPHINCS+, were published August 13, 2024.  Additional...
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Additional Digital Signature Schemes
The Round 2 candidates were announced October 24, 2024. NIST IR 8528, Status Report on the First Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process is now available. NIST announced that the PQC standardization process is continuing with a fourth round, with the following KEMs still under consideration: BIKE, Classic McEliece, HQC, and SIKE. However, there are no remaining digital signature candidates under consideration. As such,...
Stateful Hash-Based Signatures HBS
In Special Publication 800-208, Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes, NIST approves two schemes for stateful hash-based signatures (HBS) as part of the post-quantum cryptography development effort.  The two schemes were developed through the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF): 1) XMSS, specified in Request for Comments (RFC) 8391 in May 2018, and 2) LMS, in RFC 8554 in April 2019. Since being published in 2020, NIST has received feedback in regards to the restriction...