Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 30th 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]
Nicklas Körtge (IBM Research Zurich)
Norman Ashley, Cisco

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

Project Representatives

  • Matthias Kannwischer (TSR)

Non-Voting Representative (Member companies)

  • Joe Livingston (IBM)
  • Andreas Schade (IBM)
  • Prevek Sharma (University of waterloo) (Not attended)

LF Staff

  • Hart Montgomery
  • Balaji Ethirajulu (Not Attended)

Other Attendees

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

Introduction of 1st time attendees

  • No new first time attendees.

Meeting agenda

Brian Jarvis presented the meeting agenda.

  • Welcome and introduction of any new attendees
  • Tooling WG - Update on discussion about becoming a project?
  • Blog publication updates? (Tooling, PQCP both ready to publish)
  • Follow ups from 2025-07-16
    - Project lifecycle stage for OQS
    - OQS survey link
  • Lifecycle document annual review – Volunteer needed to shepherd the annual review
  • Proposed PQCA website updates
    - https://github.com/PQCA/TAC/issues/90 - Update to latest TAC roster
    - https://github.com/PQCA/TAC/issues/91 - Discoverability of PQCA wiki (link, subdomain, etc)
  • Project status updates (slides: link TBD)
    - OQS
    - PQCP
    - Tooling

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CBOM kit tool discussions

Before the official meeting began, Sandip Dholakia and Andreas Schade had a brief discussion regarding the CBOM Kit Tool. They plan to continue these discussions separately.

There was also a conversation about the potential of making the CBOM Kit a formal project. Nicklas Kortge and Andreas Schade raised questions, and Hart Montgomery provided insights into the process. Montgomery proposed setting up a dedicated meeting to discuss this further.

PQCA - Blogposts

Two blog posts— mlkem-native and CBOMKit—were reviewed by both the TAC and the Content Review Committee. It was agreed that both would be published on the PQCA website and shared via the LinkedIn page.

Montgomery noted:

  • The blog posts will be published one at a time, with a gap between them.

  • Members interested in contributing articles or papers should reach out; PQCA is open to posting these on its social media platforms.

Other Agenda topics

  • Project Lifecycle – OQS:
    Jarvis mentioned the project lifecycle stage for OQS. Ashley noted that this topic came up during the TSC discussions, but no decision has been finalized yet. Jarvis asked whether the TSC might address this in their next meeting; Norman responded that it’s a possibility.

  • Annual Review of Project Lifecycle Document:
    Jarvis requested a volunteer to lead the review of the project lifecycle document. Ashley volunteered and inquired about the timeframe. Jarvis suggested aiming for the end of August. Montgomery offered support and encouraged Ashley to reach out with any questions.

  • PQCA Website and Wiki Update:
    Jarvis brought up updates to the PQCA website and its linked wiki page. Montgomery recommended sending the request to Balaji Ethirajulu and himself for processing.

OQS Update - Norman Ashley

  • Lib OQS version 0.14 was released earlier in the month.
  • OQS provider 0.10 to be released shortly.
  • TSC meeting is coming up in the middle of August.

PQCP Update - Matthias Kannwischer

  • mlkem-native arm backend is merged into AWS-LC two days ago and that is a great milestone. If you need a faster ARM ml-kem, it is now in AWS-LC
  • For mldsa-native, CBMC proofs have been completed.

  • Working on constant time hardening and will be looking at performance to have the matching state of the art for SLH-DSA. There has been some work on integrating this into liboqs.

Tools WG Update - Andreas Schade

  • Two new version of the CBOM tools: CBOMkit version 2.1.9, that is CBOM Kit service- the one with graphical web interface that was demonstrated two weeks ago,
  • 2.1.1 for CBOM Kit action and that is the github action for workflows.
  • Created additional repo called cbom kit lib.
  • Also added some customization functions that can change the behavior of the scanner and the indexer.

OQS survey presentation - Hart Montgomery

  • Montgomery presented OQS survey results that were conducted recently
  • He also presented the key takeaways from the survey results.

New Business

  • Nil

Open Action Items / Issues Review

  • Update the PQCA website based on Brian’s request.