U.S. NIST Exhausts Digital Signature Candidates, Renews Call for PQC Digital Signature Submissions

…NIST issued the public call for submissions to the PQC Standardization Process in December 2016 and, after three rounds of evaluation and analysis, announced the selection of the first algorithms to be standardized… NIST has announced that the PQC standardization process is continuing with a fourth round…

…However, there are no remaining digital signature candidates under consideration…

…NIST is calling for submission of additional digital signature proposals to be considered in the PQC standardization process…

…Primarily, the agency is interested in additional general-purpose signature schemes that are not based on structured lattices…

Full details on submissions found here…

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