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Standards, specifications, committees and migration deadlines on post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution and quantum technologies: ETSI, CEN-CENELEC, ISO/IEC, ITU-T, IEEE, NIST and the IETF, the EU roadmap and the national agencies, each with its status and dates, its scope, what it means for organisations and its next milestone.
This page: every standard, committee and deadline with its status and next milestone. The other post-quantum pages: Guide: what post-quantum cryptography is and what to do first; Timeline by authority: the milestones of each EU and national authority, as its source states them; What is due when: everything due in the next 12 to 60 months, in date order, with a calendar feed; Compliance calendar: dated obligations and milestones beyond post-quantum.
Verification of the items on the date read: Verified: 57; Partly verified: 20; Not verified: 2.
5 items
IEC/ISO JTC 3: Quantum technologies
Body
ISO and IEC (JTC 3 Quantum technologies, JTC 1/SC 27)
Kind
Committee or group
Status
Active. Secretariat BSI (United Kingdom); 1 published ISO standard, 12 under development of which 10 under direct JTC 3 responsibility; subcommittee JSC 3A Quantum computing; WGs on terminology, sensors, QRNG, enabling technology, communication
Scope
Quantum technologies in general
Jurisdiction
International
What it means for organisations
Serves as the international committee where quantum computing, sensing, communication and enabling-technology standards are developed jointly by IEC and ISO.
Partly verified. Committee page on iso.org read (WebFetch got HTTP 403; the page was loaded with a direct HTTP client). Creation date is not shown on the iso.org page; the IEC dashboard and iec.ch pages returned HTTP 403.
ISO and IEC (JTC 3 Quantum technologies, JTC 1/SC 27)
Kind
Work item or project
Status
In development (2026-09-04). Ten approved work items, all at stage 10.99 (new project approved): eight reached it on 2026-07-08 (general quantities, photonics vocabulary, general vocabulary, HBT interferometry for photonic sources, cold-atom absolute gravimeters, quantum entropy sources, single-photon detector metrics, QRNG overview); TR 63760 (transmission media for quantum communication) and 63770-1 (quantum sensors overview) on 2026-09-04
Scope
Quantum technologies in general
Jurisdiction
International
What it means for organisations
Signals that international standards on terminology, quantum sensors, random number generators, photonic sources and quantum communication are at an early drafting stage.
Next milestone
None stated by the sources read.
Milestones, links, verification and sources
Verification
Verified. Identifiers, titles, stage 10.99 and stage dates read in the JTC 3 catalogue and RSS feed. ISO does not publish forecast dates on these pages, so no expected milestone is recorded. JSC 3A lists 2 further projects that were not itemised.
ISO/IEC 23837-1:2023: Information security — Security requirements, test and evaluation methods for quantum key distribution — Part 1: Requirements
Body
ISO and IEC (JTC 3 Quantum technologies, JTC 1/SC 27)
Kind
Standard
Status
Published (2023-08-29). Edition 1, published 2023-08 (stage 60.60 on 2023-08-29), 52 pages, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27; no amendment, revision or systematic review shown
Scope
Quantum key distribution
Jurisdiction
International
What it means for organisations
Gives evaluators and vendors a common set of security functional and assurance requirements for evaluating QKD modules under Common Criteria.
Verified. Publication date, edition, stage, pages and committee read in the iso.org standard page and life cycle (loaded with a direct HTTP client after WebFetch got HTTP 403). The life cycle shows no 90.xx review stage and no amendment or replacement.
ISO/IEC 23837-2:2023: Information security — Security requirements, test and evaluation methods for quantum key distribution — Part 2: Evaluation and testing methods
Body
ISO and IEC (JTC 3 Quantum technologies, JTC 1/SC 27)
Kind
Standard
Status
Published (2023-09-25). Edition 1, published 2023-09 (stage 60.60 on 2023-09-25), 106 pages, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27; no amendment, revision or systematic review shown
Scope
Quantum key distribution
Jurisdiction
International
What it means for organisations
Gives testing laboratories common evaluation and test methods for checking QKD modules against the Part 1 requirements.
Verified. Publication date, edition, stage, pages and committee read in the iso.org standard page and life cycle (direct HTTP client; WebFetch got HTTP 403). No later stage, amendment or replacement shown.