Standards, specifications and official guidance on post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution and quantum technologies, with each version, status and date as its publisher states it, and a link to the official page.
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Bibliographic reference records compiled from the publishers' official pages on the date shown. Summaries are the portal's own wording; no text of any standard is reproduced. Not a standards catalogue and not compliance advice: check the publisher for the authoritative current version, status and any later revision. Identifier, status and date of each record follow the standards tracker, which is the single and fuller source (drafts, withdrawn projects and deadlines); this page is its overview of key references. Compiled 2026-10-20.
17 records
FIPS 203: Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard
Publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Standard
Status
Published
Date
2024-08-13
Summary
Specifies ML-KEM, a key-encapsulation mechanism based on module lattices, with three parameter sets (ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768 and ML-KEM-1024). NIST lists errata that it plans to correct in a future update or revision.
FIPS 204: Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard
Publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Standard
Status
Published
Date
2024-08-13
Summary
Specifies ML-DSA, a set of module-lattice-based algorithms for generating and verifying digital signatures. NIST lists errata that it plans to correct in a future update or revision.
NIST SP 800-227: Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms
Publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Recommendation
Status
Published
Date
2025-09-18
Summary
NIST guidance on using key-encapsulation mechanisms, the kind of scheme standardised in FIPS 203. A draft was released in January 2025 and the final version in September 2025.
NIST IR 8545: Status Report on the Fourth Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process
Publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Technical report
Status
Published
Date
2025-03-11
Summary
Reports NIST's selection of HQC as the only fourth-round key-establishment algorithm to be standardised, as a backup to ML-KEM based on different mathematics. When checked, NIST's list of selected algorithms still showed the HQC standard as forthcoming.
NIST IR 8547 ipd: Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
Publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Roadmap or transition plan
Version
Initial public draft
Status
Draft
Date
2024-11-12
Summary
NIST's draft plan for the transition to its post-quantum cryptography standards. The comment period closed on 10 January 2025; NIST said the comments would be used to revise the plan, and no final version was listed when checked.
RFC 10024: Post-Quantum Traditional (PQ/T) Hybrid Key Agreement Mechanisms for TLS 1.3
Publisher
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Standard
Status
Published
Date
2026-08
Summary
A Standards Track RFC (Proposed Standard) defining three hybrid key agreement mechanisms for TLS 1.3, X25519MLKEM768, SecP256r1MLKEM768 and SecP384r1MLKEM1024, each combining ML-KEM with an elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman exchange.
An ETSI technical specification on key establishment that combines quantum-safe and traditional methods. V1.2.2 was the latest of the three versions in ETSI's publication archive when checked.
BSI TR-02102-1 Version 2026-01: Cryptographic Mechanisms: Recommendations and Key Lengths
Publisher
Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Technical guideline
Version
2026-01
Status
Published
Date
2026-01-23
Summary
Germany's technical guideline on cryptographic mechanisms and key lengths, to which BSI's quantum technologies and post-quantum cryptography page refers for its recommendations on quantum-safe mechanisms.
Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/1101: Commission Recommendation on a Coordinated Implementation Roadmap for the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Publisher
European Commission
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Recommendation
Status
Published
Date
2024-04-12
Summary
Encourages Member States to prepare a strategy for adopting post-quantum cryptography, with goals, milestones and timelines, that feeds into a joint EU implementation roadmap. Published in the Official Journal on 12 April 2024.
EU PQC Coordinated Implementation Roadmap (Part 1): A Coordinated Implementation Roadmap for the Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Publisher
NIS Cooperation Group (EU Member States, supported by the European Commission)
Area
Post-quantum cryptography
Kind
Roadmap or transition plan
Status
Published
Date
2025-06
Summary
The first deliverable of the NIS Cooperation Group's work stream on post-quantum cryptography. All Member States should start the transition by the end of 2026, and high-risk use cases should move as soon as possible and no later than the end of 2030. The Commission reports that a second, supplementary deliverable is in preparation.
ETSI GS QKD 014: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Protocol and data format of REST-based key delivery API
Publisher
ETSI Industry Specification Group on Quantum Key Distribution (ISG QKD)
Area
Quantum key distribution
Kind
Group specification
Version
V1.1.1
Status
Published
Date
2019-02
Summary
A group specification for a REST-based interface through which applications obtain keys from a quantum key distribution system. Group specifications represent the views of the participating members, not necessarily of all ETSI members.
ETSI GS QKD 016: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Common Criteria Protection Profile - Pair of Prepare and Measure Quantum Key Distribution Modules
Publisher
ETSI Industry Specification Group on Quantum Key Distribution (ISG QKD)
Area
Quantum key distribution
Kind
Group specification
Version
V2.1.1
Status
Published
Date
2024-01
Summary
A Common Criteria protection profile for a pair of prepare-and-measure QKD modules, the basis for security evaluation of such products. ETSI's archive lists an earlier version, V1.1.1, alongside V2.1.1.
ITU-T Y.3800: Overview on networks supporting quantum key distribution
Publisher
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
Area
Quantum key distribution
Kind
Recommendation
Version
Y.3800 (10/19), with Corrigendum 1 (04/20)
Status
Published
Date
2019-10
Summary
An ITU-T Recommendation giving an overview of networks that support quantum key distribution. ITU lists both the 2019 Recommendation and its 2020 corrigendum as in force.
The joint European standardisation committee on quantum technologies, building on the CEN and CENELEC Focus Group on Quantum Technologies (2020 to 2023). Its working groups cover strategy; metrology, sensing, imaging and enabling technologies; computing and simulation; and communication and cryptography.
JTC22 Q06 (Release 1.1): Standardization Roadmap on Quantum Technologies
Publisher
CEN/CENELEC JTC 22 Quantum Technologies
Area
Quantum technologies in general
Kind
Roadmap or transition plan
Version
Release 1.1
Status
Published
Date
2025-06
Summary
The committee's roadmap of standardisation needs across quantum technologies. It follows Release 1, published by the predecessor Focus Group as FGQT Q04; both releases are listed on the CEN-CENELEC quantum technologies page.
The joint IEC and ISO committee for standardisation in quantum technologies, including quantum computing and simulation, metrology, sources, detectors and communications. It is administered by IEC; sector-specific applications and information technology standardisation (JTC 1) are outside its scope.
Reports and pages of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). Identifiers are those of the JRC Publications Repository; the portal does not reproduce their data.
The JRC has been selected to host the EuroQCI testing and evaluation laboratory, building on the Digital Europe project NOSTRADAMUS (launched January 2024). The JRC describes its role as generating reproducible technical evidence with a view to future certification, not as guaranteeing that a product is free of vulnerabilities.
Background analysis for the Quantum Europe Strategy: companies, patents, publications, supply chains, public funding and venture capital, by sector (communication including QKD, computing including simulation, sensing, and post-quantum cryptography).
Journal article (EPJ Quantum Technology) by the CEN-CENELEC Focus Group on Quantum Technologies with JRC co-authors, on the standardisation landscape for quantum technologies.
Report of the Putting-Science-Into-Standards workshop on quantum technologies organised by the JRC with CEN, CENELEC, DG CNECT and DIN in Brussels on 28 and 29 March 2019 (EUR 30196 EN); its material is filed by CEN-CENELEC as PSIS-Standards4Quantum.