Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 2nd July, 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] (not attended)
Nicklas Körtge (IBM Research Zurich) - Not attended
Norman Ashley, Cisco
Sophie Schmieg, Google (Not attended)

Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA
Michael Maximilien (IBM)
JP Lomas (QRL)

Project Representatives

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

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

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

LF Staff

Hart Montgomery (not attended)
Balaji Ethirajulu

Other Attendees

Aditya Koranga (CORAN Labs) (TAC Vice chair)
Matvii Kistaiev (IntellectEU) - Not attended
Miguel Diaz Gonçalves (Portugal customs & Tax authority)
Angel Camacho (Not attended)
Yann Puech (Qorvo.com) - not attended
Sebastian Ganson
Shubham Kumar (Telecom industry)

Introduction of 1st time attendees

Sebastian Ganson joined from Citi Bank and he works in Post quantum defensiveness program at Citi
Shubham Kumar, currently a mentor at LFDT joined to explore and know more about Post Quantum Cryptography

Meeting agenda

Aditya Koranga presented the meeting agenda.

Welcome and introduction of any new attendees
Tooling WG - Should CBOMkit become a dedicated project?
Blog updates
PQCP action item - ML-KEM blogpost
Wiki update
Project lifecycle updates
Project status updates

TAC slides discussions/format

As mentioned previously, Ethirajulu presented and suggested the use of a TAC slide deck so that we can capture all the details correctly. He presented the TAC template that includes - TAC overview, OQS Update, PQCP update, PQCA tooling update and open discussions.

He also mentioned the launch of new PQCA social media channels - LinkedIN and X. He presented the marketing and events information.
Action - Balaji to add - Provide all Leads access to the TAC slides (Norman, Matthias, Niklas, Pravek and others)

PQCA - Wiki pages

Adiya Koranga presented the PQCA wiki page structure to the team. The wiki includes, getting involved, TAC, outreach, surveys, blogs, meetups pages etc. Decided to take this forward and maintain it.

PQCA - Lifecycle stage updates

Adiya Koranga discussed about the Lifecycle stage and requested the TSC representatives to report back with self-identified project lifecycle stage next time (July 16).

He further mentioned if the projects aren’t able to do this, then the Project representatives may report back with what assistance/answers do they need from the TAC to help. If the projects can’t move this action forward, TAC will take this up as an action to complete on the projects’ behalf.

Action - Pravek Sharma(from OQS) and Matthias Kannwischer(from PQCP) to come up with a self-identified project lifecycle stage on July 16.

OQS Update - Pravek Sharma

PQCA blog about SLH-DSA integration to be started

PQCP Update - Matthias Kannwischer

Blogpost draft for ml-kem native is sent to the content review committee for review.
Steady progress on mldsa-native
Work initiated for supporting Risc-v backend on mlkem-native
Discussion to be done with OQS for new NIST validation test vectors. Needs some API changes(if possible )