Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 05 November, 2025

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Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)

Premier Member Representatives

  • Brian Jarvis, Amazon Web Services Inc. [TAC Chair]
  • JP Lomas, QRL
  • Michael Maximilien, IBM
  • Nicklas Körtge, IBM Research Zurich
  • Norman Ashley, Cisco
  • Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA

### Project Representatives

  • Matthias Kannwischer, TSR

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

Member Companies

  • Andreas Schade, IBM
  • Joe Livingston, IBM
  • Prevek Sharma, University of Waterloo

LF Staff

  • Christina Harter
  • Hart Montgomery
  • Min Yu
  • Ry Jones

Other Attendees

  • Aditya Koranga, NgKore [TAC Vice Chair]
  • Abner Rodriguez-Guadalupe, NetStrike Labs
  • Arpad Neale, Cryptography Graduate Student
  • Massimiliano Pala, OpenCA Labs

  • [x] Sandip Dholakia

    Discussion & Updates

Introduction of 1st Time Attendees

Arpad Neale was introduced. Arpad will be graduating soon with a masters in cryptography and is interested in learning more about post-quantum cryptography.

Program Updates [Christina]:

Christina provided updates on new project onboarding, including a checklist template and the approval of CBOMkit as a new project.

Christina also discussed updates to the Marketing Submission Form, which now includes options for submitting webinars and research papers. The content review team’s responsibilities were expanded to include reviewing webinar submissions and research papers. New Webinar Submission Guidlines have been added to the PQCA Wiki.

The Blog Content Review Process was approved, and Christina will be removing the (2) unknown members from the review team as they have not responded to her inquiry about staying on the review team.

Christina also invited everyone to the upcoming outreach committee meeting, happening later in the day, which will be focused on 2026 goals and marketing/event updates.

Project Updates

CBOMkit [Andreas]:

Andreas reported on the CBOMkit project, thanking the TAC for officially approving CBOMkit as a project, and noting progress on transitioning to its own organization and setting up a Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Andreas noted that he will work with prospective TSC members to review the charter, obtain their agreement, and then send the finalized member list to Christina once confirmed.

The team discussed transitioning their existing WG Tooling call to a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) call, which will be held bi-weekly. They agreed to use the same time slot and keep it open to anyone, similar to other projects like OQS. Hart suggested renaming the calendar event and mentioned that setting up Discord channels could be useful for communication, especially for younger developers.

PQCP [Matthias provided before the meeting]:

Aditya shared Matthias’ updates (outlined below) on the PQCP project, including progress on growth plans and achievements in mlkem-native and mdesa-native sub-projects.

  • Growth Plan: Hart gave an overview to the PQCP team on how a growth plan should look like during the 2025-10-02 TSC meeting. All PQCP sub projects are now preparing their own growth plan - they are collecting it in pq-code-package/tsc#188. The mlkem-native growth plan can be found here.

Sub-project updates:

mlkem-native

  • Finished an integration of mlkem-native into OpenTitan leverarging their Keccak (KMAC) hardware accelerator. It has been merged into zeroRISC’s OpenTitan distribution: [crypto] mlkem-native integration zerorisc/expo#97. We are working on a blog post on this integration - can we post this on the PQCA blog?
  • Merged the RISC-V vector backend: Add RISCV64 RVV backend pq-code-package/mlkem-native#1037

mldsa-native

  • Finished all initial performance work on the AArch64 and x86 backends (achieving comparable or better performance as state of the art) Most configuration options are added
  • Working towards an v1.0.0-alpha relase: https://github.com/pq-code-package/mldsa-native/milestone/1 (Planning a release in 1-2 weeks)

slhdsa-c

  • slhdsa-c will be shipped in the upcoming 0.15.0 liboqs release: https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/releases/tag/0.15.0-rc1

OQS:

No updates were shared.

Adjourned: 7:36am PT.