NIST expects to finalise a standard for HQC, its backup post-quantum key-exchange algorithm, in 2027.

NIST said this on 2025-03-11. The Ledger scores it on 2027-12-31, against criteria fixed on 2026-09-23.

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What was said

NIST plans to issue a draft standard incorporating the HQC algorithm in about a year, with a finalized standard expected in 2027.

news release, NIST, 2025-03-11

Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20250311151822/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption

How it is scored

Resolves VERIFIED if, by 31 Dec 2027 (plus grace), NIST has published the final Federal Information Processing Standard for HQC (expected to be numbered FIPS 207). There is no partial outcome: a draft is not a standard. NOT_VERIFIED if only a draft exists by then.

Sources that will settle it: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips, https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news, https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography.

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