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.
All relevant comments will be posted in their entirety and should not include PII information in the body of the email message.
Please refrain from using OFFICIAL COMMENT to ask administrative questions, which should be sent to pqc-comments@nist.gov
Guidelines for Submitting Tweaks for Third Round Finalists and Candidates (pdf)
Algorithm | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
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Classic McEliece (merger of Classic McEliece and NTS-KEM |
Zip File (97MB) |
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 |
Submit Comment |
NTRU |
Zip File (6MB) |
Cong Chen |
Submit Comment |
SABER |
Zip File (5MB) |
Jan-Pieter D'Anvers Angshuman Karmakar Sujoy Sinha Roy Frederik Vercauteren Jose Maria Bermudo Mera Michiel Van Beirendonck Andrea Basso |
Algorithm | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
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CRYSTALS-DILITHIUM |
Zip File (11MB) |
Vadim Lyubashevsky Leo Ducas Eike Kiltz Tancrede Lepoint Peter Schwabe Gregor Seiler Damien Stehle Shi Bai |
Submit Comment |
FALCON |
Zip File (4MB) |
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 |
Algorithm | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
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BIKE |
Zip File (34MB) |
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 |
Submit Comment |
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) Website |
Carlos Aguilar Melchor |
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NTRU Prime |
Zip File (6MB) 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 |
Submit Comment |
SIKE | Zip File (11MB) IP Statements |
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 |
Submit Comment |
Algorithm | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
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GeMSS |
Zip File (327MB) |
A. Casanova J.-C. Faugere G. Macario-Rat J. Patarin L. Perret J. Ryckeghem |
Submit Comment |
Picnic | Zip File (144MB) |
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) |
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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