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Member Spotlight: In Africa, PQCA’s Tools Meet a Continent’s Backbone
How an associate member put the Alliance's open-source stack to work — and made post-quantum migration a continental conversation. When the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance opens its tooling and standards work to the community, the return isn't always visible right away. Here is a case where it was. On 26 June,…
Jul 27, 2026 In Open Quantum Safe, PQCA
Leadership Spotlight: Q&A With Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma, OQS TSC Co-Chair
Q: What is your current role/background, and how did you first get involved with Open Quantum Safe (OQS)? A: My name is Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma. I am a mathematician from Spain, with a background in Computer Science as well. I work at Indra, a Spanish technological company, where I currently…
Jun 11, 2026 In CBOMkit
CBOMkit Pipeline – Uncover Cryptographic Algorithms Hiding in the Dependencies of Your Project
The Problem Organizations preparing for PQC transition need to start building their cryptographic inventories. One of the main components of a cryptographic inventory should be a list of CBOMs (Cryptographic Bill of Materials). Tools such as CBOMkit tool suite (which is a part of Post Quantum Cryptography Alliance tooling group)…
May 18, 2026 In PQCA
Announcing the PQC Readiness Tracking Working Group
The Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA) is happy to announce the creation of the Readiness Tracking Working Group. As the industry prepares for the transition to post-quantum safe ciphers, it can be challenging to find information regarding the PQC compatibility of common enterprise and consumer technology. The working group will coordinate…
Apr 15, 2026 In CBOMkit
CBOMkit Now Supports Go (Golang)
We’re excited to announce that CBOMkit now supports Go (Golang) for cryptographic detection and CBOM generation. With this update, CBOMkit extends its language coverage beyond Java and Python - bringing cryptographic visibility to one of the most widely used languages in modern infrastructure. What’s Included in Go Support Go support…
Mar 16, 2026 In CBOMkit
PQCA CBOMkit Architecture
CBOMkit is a collection of tools built by IBM (now under the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance) for generating and managing Cryptographic Bills of Materials (CBOMs). A CBOM is a structured inventory of the cryptographic assets present in a software system: algorithms, keys, protocols, and their properties. The kit enables organizations to…
Mar 4, 2026 In PQ Code Package
mlkem-native and mldsa-native in CHERIoT
The CHERIoT platform is a hardware-software co-designed system that provides memory safety and fine-grained compartmentalisation in embedded devices. It began as a Microsoft Research project that was open sourced in 2023. It is now collaboratively developed with three maintainers: myself, Yucong Tao (Microsoft), and Ben Laurie (Google). The first CHERIoT…
Feb 25, 2026 In Open Quantum Safe
LFX Mentorship – Enhancing Constant-Time Analysis Tooling in liboqs
Contributed By: Pablo Gutierrez Felix; LFX Fall 2025 Mentee Last semester, I contributed to the Open Quantum Safe Project through the LFX Mentorship Program, as a selected mentee focused on enhancing constant-time analysis tooling in liboqs. In this blog post, I share the outcomes and key reflections from the work…
Jan 6, 2026 In PQ Code Package
LFX Mentorship: Contributing to the first release of mldsa-native
Contributed By: Chun-Ming Chiu (Academia Sinica); LFX Fall 2025 Mentee In September 2025, I began my journey on LFX Mentorship and started contributing to the mldsa-native project. Now, as the 12-weeks mentorship program is nearing its end, I want to record my learning experience and share my reflection in this…
Nov 25, 2025 In PQ Code Package
PQCA Announces Alpha Release of mldsa-native
We're pleased to announce the v1.0.0-alpha release of mldsa-native, a new C90 library that allows developers to support the ML-DSA / FIPS 204 post-quantum cryptography standard with minimal performance and maintenance cost. mldsa-native is designed with production deployments in mind: Minimal Dependencies: Written in portable C90 with minimal and configurable…