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Awesome Post-Quantum

A curated list of resources about post-quantum cryptography.

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Contents

• U.S. standards and guidelines
  • NIST standard algorithms
  • Migration guidelines
• Other national initiatives
• IETF standards and proposals
• From tech organizations
• PQC software
  • General-purpose libraries with PQC support
  • PQC libraries and language-specific software
  • TLS implementations with PQC support
• Blockchains
• Research surveys
• Other resources

U.S. standards and guidelines

Standardization projects:

• NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography
• PQC Additional Digital Signature Schemes (in progress, round 3)

NIST standard algorithms

KEMs (encryption, key agreement):

• HQC - Selected in 2025, code-based
  • HQC official software
• ML-KEM (Kyber) - Selected in 2022, lattice-based
  • FIPS 203: Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard (ML-KEM)
  • Kyber official software

Signature schemes:

• FN-DSA (Falcon) - Selected in 2022, lattice-based
  • Presentation FIPS 206 Status Update
  • Presentation Falcon, Towards FN-DSA
  • Falcon official software
• ML-DSA (Dilithium) - Selected in 2022, lattice-based
  • FIPS 204: Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA)
  • Dilithium official software
• SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+) - Selected in 2022, hash-based
  • FIPS 205: Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard (SLH-DSA)
  • SPHINCS+ official software

Migration guidelines

• CISA Quantum-Readiness: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography
• CISA Strategy for Migrating to Automated Post-Quantum Cryptography Discovery and Inventory Tools
• DHS PQC approach and roadmap
• NIST and NCCoE’s Migration to PQC
• NIST Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography
• NSA Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Resources
• NSA PQC FAQ
• Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act

Other national initiatives

• GSMA: Post Quantum Government Initiatives by Country and Region
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Working Group on PQC Standardization

Australia:

• ASD: Planning for post-quantum cryptography

Canada:

• Communications Security Establishment (CSE) Quantum Threat Assessments
• Migrating the Government of Canada to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Security Policy Implementation Notice
• Roadmap for the migration to post-quantum cryptography for the Government of Canada (ITSM.40.001)

China:

• Next-Generation Commercial Cryptographic Algorithms Program (NGCC)
• NGCC Round 1 Candidates

Czech Republic:

• Minimum Requirements for Cryptographic Algorithms
• Quantum Threat and Quantum Resistant Cryptography

EU:

• A Coordinated Implementation Roadmap for the Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
• ENISA Post-Quantum Cryptography Reports
• ETSI Quantum-Safe Cryptography Specification Group
• Europe’s Post-Quantum Readiness 2026 An Empirical Assessment of the EU-27

France:

• ANSSI initiatives and publications
• ANSSI views on the Post-Quantum Cryptography transition

G7:

• G7 Cyber Expert Group Statement on Advancing a Coordinated Roadmap for the Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Financial Sector
• G7 Cybersecurity Working Group Statement on preparing for a post-quantum cryptography migration

Germany:

• BSI TR-02102 Cryptographic Mechanisms
• BSI TR-02102-1 “Cryptographic Mechanisms: Recommendations and Key Lengths”
• BSI TR-02102-2 “Cryptographic Mechanisms: Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS)” - version 2026-01, announces the recommendation of hybrid ML-KEM groups for TLS 1.3 (unofficial JSON of the tables)

Hong Kong:

• HKMA Quantum Preparedness of Hong Kong’s Banking Sector

India:

• Implementation of Quantum Safe Ecosystem in India

Israel:

• Post Quantum Cryptography-ל היערכות

Japan:

• Guidelines (including PQC) by CRYPTREC

Malaysia:

• Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Framework

Netherlands:

• AIVD’s PQC Migration Handbook

Norway:

• NSM Quantum Migration Guidance

Russia:

• TC26 standards committee announces potential standards:
  • Codiaeum/Кодиеум - KEM, code-based
  • Hypericum - Signature, hash-based
  • Shipovnik/Шиповник - Signature, code-based
  • Zemlyanika/Земляника - KEM, lattice-based

Singapore:

• MAS Advisory on Addressing the Cybersecurity Risks Associated with Quantum
• CSA Quantum-Safe Handbook and Quantum Readiness Index

South Korea:

• KpqC Competitions and Algorithms
• Standardized algorithms:
  • NTRU+ - KEM, lattice-based
  • SMAUG-T - KEM, lattice-based
  • AIMer - Signature, MPC-in-the-head
  • HAETAE - Signature, lattice-based

Spain:

• CCN Recommendations for a safe post-quantum transition

Sweden:

• Nationella rekommendationer för övergången till kvantsäker kryptografi (Translation: National recommendations for the transition to quantum secure cryptography.)

Switzerland:

• FINMA Guidance 05/2026: Quantum Computing

United Kingdom:

• NCSC’s Timelines for migration to post-quantum cryptography
• NCSC’s Next steps in preparing for post-quantum cryptography

IETF standards and proposals

RFCs:

• RFC 8391: XMSS: eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme
• RFC 8554: Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures
• RFC 8784: Mixing Preshared Keys in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2) for Post-quantum Security
• RFC 9370: Multiple Key Exchanges in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
• RFC 9881: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure – Algorithm Identifiers for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA)
• RFC 9935: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure - Algorithm Identifiers for the Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM)
• RFC 9794: Terminology for Post-Quantum Traditional Hybrid Schemes
• RFC 9941: Secure Shell (SSH) Key Exchange Method Using Hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime sntrup761 and X25519 with SHA-512: sntrup761x25519-sha512
• RFC 9958: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers
• RFC 10024: Post-Quantum Traditional (PQ/T) Hybrid Key Agreement Mechanisms for TLS 1.3

Internet-Drafts:

• I-D Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite 2.0 Profile for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
• I-D Composite ML-DSA for use in X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
• I-D Downgrade Prevention for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
• I-D Framework to Integrate Post-quantum Key Exchanges into Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
• I-D Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3
• I-D Hybrid Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Methods (PQ KEM) for Transport Layer Security 1.2 (TLS)
• I-D Merkle Tree Certificates
• I-D ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3
• I-D Post-Quantum and Post-Quantum/Traditional Hybrid Algorithms for HPKE
• I-D Post-quantum Key Exchange with ML-KEM in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
• I-D PQ/T Hybrid Key Exchange with ML-KEM in SSH
• I-D Use of Composite ML-DSA in TLS 1.3
• I-D Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3
• I-D Use of the FN-DSA Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)

From tech organizations

Alibaba:

• What is Post-Quantum Encryption - And How to Enable It on ESA

Apple:

• iMessage with PQ3 protocol
• Security research blog on PQC

AWS:

• AWS KMS post-quantum TLS
• AWS PQC Initiative
• AWS post-quantum cryptography migration plan
• s2n-tls PQC implementation
• Verifying and optimizing post-quantum cryptography at Amazon

Cloudflare:

• A look at the latest post-quantum signature standardization candidates
• Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
• Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
• PQC solutions overview
• State of the post-quantum Internet in 2025
• Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms
• You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security

Google:

• Roadmap: PQC in Plaintext: Google Cloud’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap
• Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS
• Building superconducting and neutral atom quantum computers
• FIDO2/WebAuthn post-quantum security keys
• Google Cloud Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
• Post-quantum cryptography in Chrome
• Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear
• Chrome: Post-Quantum HTTPS Authentication Roadmap

Hashicorp:

• NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards: Our plans

IBM:

• Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM)
• IBM Quantum Safe
• Quantum Safe Roadmap

Kubernetes:

• Post-Quantum Cryptography in Kubernetes

Meta:

• Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration at Meta: Framework, Lessons, and Takeaways
• Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta

Microsoft:

• Azure Quantum Cryptography
• LWEKE Reference implementations
• Microsoft PQC program
• Post-Quantum TLS

Palo Alto Networks:

• A Complete Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
• Quantum Readiness Guide

Red Hat:

• Post-quantum cryptography in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• What’s new in post-quantum cryptography in RHEL 10.1

Signal:

• PQXDH: Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman
• Signal’s approach to post-quantum encryption

Tencent:

• PQC InfoHub

PQC software

• SUPERCOP - Benchmarks for cryptographic software
• PQConnect - Network-layer PQ-protected tunneling

General-purpose libraries with PQC support

Does not include TLS implementations listed later:

• AWS-LC - Rust bindings in aws-lc-rs
• Botan - C++
• Bouncy Castle - Java/C#
• CIRCL (Cloudflare Interoperable, Reusable Cryptographic Library) - Go
• Google Tink - Multi-language (C++, Go, Java, Obj-C, Python)

PQC libraries and language-specific software

C:

• algorand/falcon - Deterministic FALCON implementation
• liboqs - From Open Quantum Safe
• mupq/pqm4 - PQC library for the ARM Cortex-M4
• PQ Code Package - A Linux Foundation PQCA project building high-assurance implementations of standards-track algorithms

Go:

• Go crypto/mlkem - Official Go implementation of Kyber/ML-KEM

JavaScript:

• paulmillr/noble-post-quantum - ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon, and hybrids

.NET:

• Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET

Rust:

• libcrux - Formally verified code
• RustCrypto/KEMs - ML-KEM, FrodoKem
• RustCrypto/signatures - ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, LMS
• orion-rs/orion - ML-KEM, ML-DSA

Zig:

• std.crypto - ML-DSA and ML-KEM in the standard library

TLS implementations with PQC support

• aws/s2n-tls
• BoringSSL
• OpenSSL
• Go crypto/tls
• wolfSSL

SSH implementations with PQC support

• OpenSSH

Blockchains

Official documentation, plan, proposals, and specifications:

Algorand:

• Algorand Post-Quantum Roadmap
• Technical Brief: Quantum-resistant transactions on Algorand with Falcon signatures
• Algorand Post-Quantum Ledger: Securing the ledger, one account type at a time
• Deterministic Falcon Signatures

Bitcoin:

• BIP-?: SHRINCS: A Compact Hash-Based Signature Scheme
• BIP-360: Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR)
• BIP-361: Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset
• Lattice-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin
• OP_CHECKSHRINCS: A Hash-Based Signature Opcode for Post-Quantum Bitcoin

Circle/Arc:

• Circle’s Post-Quantum Security Roadmap - “Arc will deploy a precompiled post-quantum signature verifier on mainnet (SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s) so smart accounts can validate post-quantum signatures on-chain.”

Ethereum:

• Post-quantum cryptography on Ethereum
• pq.ethereum.org
• Lean Consensus R&D Progress

NEAR:

• Preparing NEAR for the Quantum Computing Era - “The Near One team (…) decided to start with FIPS-204 (ML-DSA, prev. Dilithium)”

Polkadot:

• Post Quantum Cryptography Roadmap for Polkadot and JAM - “We use both [Falcon and Dilithium] in different parts of the Polkadot protocol to replace all signature schemes.”

Ripple:

• Post-Quantum Readiness on the XRP Ledger

Solana:

• Quantumglow: Will Solana’s Performance Survive Quantum Computing? - “we propose a hash-based (XMSS-style) signature scheme tailored specifically to Quantumglow”
• Securing Solana Against a Powerful Quantum Adversary
• Solana’s Quantum Readiness - "The alignment around Falcon reflects extensive research around Solana’s quantum resiliency. "

Sui:

• Making Sui Quantum Ready - “Sui is adding […] ML-DSA-65 as a native protocol signature scheme for everyday accounts, and hash-based SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s inside Move smart contracts for high-value vaults.”

Zcash:

• ZIP-2005: Orchard Quantum Recoverability

Research surveys

• A Decade of Lattice-Based Cryptography - By Chris Peikert
• A Survey on Code-Based Cryptography - By Violetta Weger, Niklas Gassner and Joachim Rosenthal
• Mathematics of Isogeny-Based Cryptography - By Luca de Feo
• Post-Quantum Cryptography - By Daniel J. Bernstein, Johannes Buchmann and Erik Dahmen
• Post-quantum cryptography—dealing with the fallout of physics success - By Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange
• Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities: Resource Estimates and Mitigations - By Google Quantum AI
• The Learning with Errors Problem - By Oded Regev
• A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography - By Alfred Menezes

Other resources

• [PQ]probe
• Awesome PQC Resources
• awesome-quantum-software
• PQC Crypto Registry - By Project Eleven
• PQCrypto Usage & Deployment
• PQC Forum - NIST’s discussion list
• PQ Readiness Index - Active TLS 1.3 probes of a fixed 350-host list, sector aggregates and open methodology
• PQ-SORT: Post-Quantum Signatures On-Ramp Tests
• Quantum Algorithm Zoo