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Limits RegistryNIST finalized its first post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024, including FIPS 203 (ML-KEM, based on the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm). Its highest-security ML-KEM-1024 parameter set uses a 1,568-byte public key, standardized to resist attacks from both classical and future large-scale quantum computers, and is intended to be phased into use for key exchange ahead of the eventual arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers.
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NIST finalized its first post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024, including FIPS 203 (ML-KEM, based on the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm). Its highest-security ML-KEM-1024 parameter set uses a 1,568-byte public key, standardized to resist attacks from both classical and future large-scale quantum computers, and is intended to be phased into use for key exchange ahead of the eventual arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers.
The public-key size, in bytes, of the ML-KEM-1024 parameter set (NIST security category 5) within FIPS 203, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's standardized post-quantum module-lattice-based key-encapsulation mechanism.
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Limits Registry. LR-NIST-MLKEM-1024-KEY-SIZE. Largest standardized post-quantum cryptographic key encapsulation parameter set. 2026.