Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 18th June, 2025

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**Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)**

Premier and General Member Representatives

Brian Jarvis, Amazon Web Services Inc. [TAC Chair] Nicklas Körtge (IBM Research Zurich) Norman Ashley, Cisco Sophie Schmieg, Google (Not attended)

Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA
Michael Maximilien (IBM) (Not attended)
JP Lomas (QRL) (Not attended)

Project Representatives

Nigel Jones, IBM [PQCP] (Not attended)
Spencer Wilson, U Waterloo [OQS]
Matthias Kannwischer (TSR)

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

Joe Livingston (IBM)
Andreas Schade (IBM) (Representing Niklas Kortge)
Pravek Sharma (University of waterloo) (Not attended)

LF Staff

Hart Montgomery
Balaji Ethirajulu

Other Attendees

Aditya Koranga (CORAN Labs) (TAC Vice chair)
Matvii Kistaiev (IntellectEU)
Miguel Diaz Gonçalves (Portugal customs & Tax authority)
Angel Camacho (Not attended)
Yann Puech (Qorvo.com)

Introduction of 1st time attendees

Yann Puech from Qorvo joined the meeting from France. He is a system architect working securing their products.

Outreach committee presentation

Brian Jarvis started the meeting and presented the Agenda. As part of the first part of the Agenda, Balaji Ethirajulu presented the last outreach committee discussions to the TAC. Key points discussed in the outreach committee.

Mentorship program
Mentioned about OQS survey
Educational efforts
Global events
Local events
Blogposts.

During the discussions, Koranga mentioned that he will be attend the Open SSL event.

Jarvis also discussed the local events and asked about how to organize it. Ethirajulu explained and stated that we can help to co-ordinate the event, like publishing it in our PQCA website. He also stated that the local event creates awareness and networking opportunities. Members can also write blogs about these events.

Wilson also mentioned that Douglas Stebila was invited to participate in the Open SSL event.

Blogpost review by content review committee

Discussed about the CBOMKit blog post. Ethirajulu mentioned that the blogpost has been sent to the content review committee. It appears that members did not receive it. Action: Ethirajulu to check and send the blog link via direct email to the committee members. Jarvis also reviewed some of the github PR’s, discussed with team and closed it.

OQS Update - Spencer Wilson

Wilson stated liboqs release 0.14.0 is in the pipe line which will come out shortly.
It will include a new algorithm SNOVA for the first time and a security patch.
There is also a recent update on the OQS demo.
He also mentioned that Douglas is looking to hire someone and Wilson will be moving out of OQS.

PQCP Update - Matthias Kannwischer

Matthias stated that mlkem-native code was released two weeks ago.
There is a steady progress on mldsa-native and hope to release it in the next couple of months.
There is a new project called slhdsa-c. This is going to be the C and assembly implementation of the SLH-DSA.

Tools WG Update - Andreas Schade

Andreas Schade mentioned that IBM has donated the CBOM related project to PQCA Tooling group.
We are getting regular participation from Siemens Healthineers. They contributed code to the CBOMKit.

New Business

Open Action Items / Issues Review

Brian mentioned that each project (TSC)should look into the project lifecycle document.