Weekly research log
Post-Quantum Saturday
Dated weekly notes on Post-Quantum Cryptography. Each briefing reflects what was known in its week; the pillar entries carry the current view.
2026-10-17OpenSSL 4.1.0-beta2 shipped Oct 9 (in-window carry) — released with DTLS 1.3 (RFC 9147), RFC 8701 GREASE, IKEv
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2026-10-10AWS-LC release surface: no new tag in 9 days.
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2026-10-03AWS-LC v5.11.0 was released on 2026-10-01 23:32 UTC by skmcgrail (commit fa9bc8d, PR #3610).
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2026-09-26Both pure PQ-TLS documents were re-blocked under appeal on the same day, by the same AD.
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2026-09-19A clean negative on direct LWE-based AKE: ePrint 2026/2017, Ding/Yu/Pan/Cheng/Weng (Sep 14, ASIACRYPT 2026.
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2026-09-12The ML-DSA appeal record is now complete and on the page.
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2026-09-05Pure ML-KEM for TLS 1.3 was approved by the IESG on September 3, 2026.
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2026-08-22Simon's polynomial-time DCP claim has been refuted — formally, and machine-checked.
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2026-08-15Daniel Simon claims a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for the Dihedral Coset Problem (ePrint 2026/1591, Augu
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2026-08-08The Pure ML-KEM for TLS fight reaches its climax.
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2026-08-01ML-DSA in TLS crosses the standards threshold.
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2026-07-25ANSSI PQC Certification Mandate (2027): France's cybersecurity agency will refuse certification for security.
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2026-07-18liboqs 0.16.0 released (July 9, 2026): Stable milestone with full NIST-standardized algorithm support (ML-KEM.
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2026-07-11liboqs 0.16.0 released (July 9, 2026): Stable release with full ML-KEM/ML-DSA/SLH-DSA/HQC support, improved.
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2026-07-04Microsoft PQC Acceleration (early July 2026): Expanded roadmap targeting SFI (Secure Future Initiative) with.
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2026-06-27Trump PQC Executive Order (June 23, 2026) — Directs federal agencies to appoint PQC transition leads within 30
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2026-06-20Bernstein's "Exploiting ML-DSA bugs" (June 1, 2026) — 59-page paper with two open-source attack demonstrations
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