Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 25 March, 2026

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Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)

Premier Member Representatives

  • Brian Jarvis, AWS [TAC Chair]
  • Michael Maximilien, IBM
  • Norman Ashley, Cisco (OQS Rep)
  • Sophie Schmieg, Google

### Project Representatives

  • Matthias Kannwischer, TCR
  • Hanno Becker, AWS (PQCP)
  • Andreas Schade, IBM (CBOMkit)

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

LF Staff

  • Christina Harter
  • Hart Montgomery
  • Min Yu
  • Tomaz Sedej

Other Attendees

  • Aditya Koranga, NgKore [TAC Vice Chair]
  • Kevin Micciche, Hewlett Packard

Meeting Agenda

  • [Christina] PQC Webinar with Google on April 14th at 7:00am PT; Register here
  • [Christina] Mentorship program call for mentors extended to April 17th
  • [Christina] General Member GB Rep Nominations extended to April 17th
  • [Christina] 2026 Technical Community Representative (TCR) - Congrats to Matthias Kannwischer!
  • CBOMkit blog post: https://pqca.org/blog/2026/pqca-cbomkit-architecture/
  • Possible blog post about Go support in CBOMkit
  • Any updates or feedback from RWC
  • Update on network scanner in CBOMkit
  • Any follow-up on OpenSSF baselines within TSCs

    Discussion & Updates

Introduction of 1st Time Attendees

Kevin Micciche, HP, introduced himself.

Announcements

Hart and Tomasz announced the items listed by Christina in the meeting agenda, including Tomaz explaining the webinar.

Brian also noted that Aditya had won the TAC chair election by being the only nomination, and stated that he was looking forward to Aditya running the TAC and that he was confident Aditya would do well.

CBOMkit Blogposts

Aditya and Brian discussed the possibility of another blog post for CBOMkit, including potentially offering Go support. Andreas expressed thanks for Aditya taking the lead on this.

RWC Updates and Feedback

Brian introduced the RWC topic, and Matthias commented “What happens in Taipei, stays in Taipei” facetiously. Matthias mentioned some of the logistics of the conference and Hart mentioned that we would get the videos and other content online for all to watch in the not too distant future.

Matthias mentioned that it would be nice if the logistics for RWPQC had happened sooner, and Hart agreed. Brian also mentioned this and folks agreed that AWS hosting event in Seattle next year could make the logistics simpler.

Network Scanner in CBOMkit

Andreas gave an update on the network scanner issue for CBOMkit. There doesn’t appear at this point to be a real business value in doing this, and so at this point it is looking like it will not be included.

Follow-Up on OpenSSF Baseline

This is being deferred to the project updates.

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Project Updates

  • OQS (Norm)

    • Norm has been out of the office and thus didn’t have a chance to follow the most recent developments in OQS, so deferred an update to later.

  • PQCP (Matthias)

    • Minutes of the 2026-03-19 TSC meeting available here.
    • mlkem-native v1.1.0 released. Already merged into AWS-LC and zeroRISC’s OpenTitan fork; PR open into liboqs.
    • Hanno and Matthias presented mlkem-native and RWC 2026. Various potential consumers have approached us.
    • mldsa-native: Progress on memory optimizations and backend proofs.
    • libjade: A new release of mlkem-libjade is expected soon. Planning to finalize ML-DSA proofs for mldsa-libjade by the end of the year.
    • Upcoming TSC Chair elections (Nominations until April 15).
    • New proposal for the inclusion of the C++20 ML-KEM and ML-DSA implementation by @itzmeanjan into the PQCP. Discussions on-going in the issue. Vote by TSC to be held online March 26 - April 2, 2026.
      • This last point was discussed extensively in the meeting, with Matthias explaining why the maintainers were not leaning towards accepting this contribution.

  • CBOMkit (Andreas)

    • Andreas mentioned the OpenSSF baseline project topic, and whether it was worth it. Hart explained a little about this and volunteered to invite the OpenSSF project team to the TAC meeting.
    • Andreas mentioned the blog posts as well.
    • There is work being done on adding C# to CBOMkit that is close to being merged, which will add a 4th language that is supported. This should be ready soon.

Next Steps / Action Items

Action Item Owner Status / Due Date
Invite OpenSSF folks to discuss baseline Hart Soon

Adjourned: 7:37 AM PT.