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Glossary: Cryptography and PKI

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Also written: National Institute of Standards and Technology, FIPS

The US standards body whose guidance is widely used to choose algorithms and key lengths. It publishes numbered FIPS standards, including the post-quantum ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key agreement and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) for signatures.

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Key lengthPost-quantumML-KEMML-DSA