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White Paper (Draft)

[Project Description] Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Date Published: June 2021
Comments Due: July 7, 2021 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to: applied-crypto-pqc@nist.gov

Author(s)

William Barker (Dakota Consulting), Murugiah Souppaya (NIST)

Announcement

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new draft project description, Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography. Publication of this project description begins a process to further identify project requirements, scope, and hardware and software components for use in a laboratory environment.

The NCCoE will solicit participation from industry to develop and demonstrate practices to ease migration from the current set of public-key cryptographic algorithms to replacement algorithms that are resistant to quantum computer-based attacks. These practices will take the form of white papers, playbooks, and demonstrable implementations for organizations. The audience for these practices is intended to include organizations that provide cryptographic standards and protocols and enterprises that develop, acquire, implement, and service cryptographic products. This effort complements the NIST post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization activities.

Besides providing public comments on the draft, you can join the Community of Interest by sending an email to applied-crypto-pqc@nist.gov

Abstract

Keywords

algorithm; cryptographic hardware; cryptographic module; cryptography; encryption; identity management; key establishment and management; post-quantum cryptography; public-key cryptography
Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
Draft Project Description

Supplemental Material:
Submit comments (web)
Project homepage (web)

Document History:
06/04/21: White Paper (Draft)
08/04/21: White Paper (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy
post-quantum cryptography