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The Forum narrowed more than 1,200 AI-generated nominations to 10. The report's authors wrote that hardware still limits quantum simulation and recommended mandated timelines for post-quantum migration.
National security systems must support the NSA's CNSA 2.0 algorithms. The department ruled out quantum key distribution for quantum resistance and will count solutions as fully post-quantum only with post-quantum authentication.
Under Trump's executive order, OMB must require agencies to move high value assets and high impact systems to post-quantum key establishment by 2030. Contractors would face that date through a procurement rule due in proposed form by December 19.
An ANSSI official told a Paris conference that the agency would stop certifying products without quantum-resistant encryption from 2027, Reuters reported. In its written guidance, ANSSI ties that year to qualification and advises against non-PQC purchases after 2030.
NIST proposes keeping today's classical PIV keys and adding post-quantum ones beside them. It calls the documents preliminary working materials and is taking comments through a mailing list and GitHub with no closing date.
Let's Encrypt said nothing changes today for its subscribers. It presented both dates as targets and wrote that the transition will take time, with standards and browser root programs still unsettled.
The senator who moved third reading said there was "no direct discussion" of quantum threats at the committee level. Under a separate Treasury Board notice, federal departments must move high-priority systems to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2031.
Bernstein ran both demonstrations on his own implementation after adding each bug himself. He based his case against deploying ML-DSA alone on a statistical model of how many severe bugs new libraries will ship.
Jonas Nick of Blockstream called the design a starting point. Only signers that track which one-time keys they have used, such as dedicated signing devices, would produce the smallest signatures. Using the opcode on Bitcoin would require a soft fork.
In PNAS, Oxford's Tim Palmer proposed that quantum computers lose their advantage above about 1,000 perfect qubits. He wrote that his theory and standard quantum mechanics agree on small systems. No experiment has yet tested where they differ.
