NIST Round 2 Candidates
| Candidate | Submitters | Type | Sub-type | Class | Status | Claimed Security | NIST Security Categories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIKE Zip file | Nicolas Aragon /Paulo S.L.M. Barreto /Slim Bettaieb /Loic Bidoux /Olivier Blazy /Jean-Christophe Deneuville /Phillipe Gaborit /Shay Gueron /Tim Guneysu /Carlos Aguilar Melchor /Rafael Misoczki /Edoardo Persichetti /Nicolas Sendrier /Jean-Pierre Tillich /Gilles Zemor | Code | Quasi-Cyclic Moderate Density Parity-Check (QC-MDPC) codes | KEM | CPA | 1/3/5 | |
| Classic McEliece Zip file | Daniel J. Bernstein /Tung Chou /Tanja Lange /Ingo von Maurich /Rafael Misoczki /Ruben Niederhagen /Edoardo Persichetti /Christiane Peters /Peter Schwabe /Nicolas Sendrier /Jakub Szefer /Wen Wang | Code | Binary Goppa codes | KEM | CCA2 | 5 | |
| ROLLO | Nicolas Aragon /Olivier Blazy /Jean-Christophe Deneuville /Philippe Gaborit /Adrien Hauteville /Olivier Ruatta / Jean-Pierre Tillich /Gilles Zemor /Carlos Aguilar Melchor /Slim Bettaieb /Loic Bidoux | Code | Quasi-cyclic codes, BCH codes, Ideal-LRPC codes Rank metric codes | KEM | MERGED from LAKE and LOCKER and Ouroboros-R | TBA | |
| RQC Zip file | Carlos Aguilar Melchor /Nicolas Aragon /Slim Bettaieb /Loic Bidoux /Olivier Blazy /Jean-Christophe Deneuville /Phillippe Gaborit /Gilles Zemor | Code | Rank Quasi-Cyclic codes | KEM | CCA2 | 1/3/5 | |
| HQC Zip file | Carlos Aguilar Melchor /Nicolas Aragon /Slim Bettaieb /Loïc Bidoux /Olivier Blazy /Jean-Christophe Deneuville /Philippe Gaborit /Edoardo Persichetti /Gilles Zémor | Code | Quasi-cyclic codes, BCH codes | KEM | CCA2 | 1/3/5 | |
| LEDAcrypt | Marco Baldi /Alessandro Barenghi /Franco Chiaraluce /Gerardo Pelosi /Paolo Santini | Code | Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) | KEM | MERGED from LEDApkc and LEDAkem | TBA | |
| NTS-KEM Zip file | Martin Albrecht /Carlos Cid /Kenneth G. Paterson /Cen Jung Tjhai /Martin Tomlinson | Code | McEliece, Niederreiter variant | KEM | CCA | 1/3/5 | |
| Picnic Zip file | Greg Zaverucha / Melissa Chase /David Derler /Steven Goldfeder /Claudio Orlandi /Sebastian Ramacher /Christian Rechberger /Daniel Slamanig | Other | Signature | sEUF-CMA | 1/3/5 | ||
| SPHINCS+ Zip file | Andreas Hulsing /Daniel J. Bernstein /Christoph Dobraunig /Maria Eichlseder /Scott Fluhrer /Stefan-Lukas Gazdag /Panos Kampanakis /Stefan Kolbl / Tanja Lange /Martin M Lauridsen /Florian Mendel /Ruben Niederhagen /Christian Rechberger /Joost Rijneveld /Peter Schwabe | Hash | Signature | EUF-CMA | 1/3/5 | ||
| NTRU Prime Zip file | Daniel J. Bernstein /Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup /Tanja Lange /Christine van Vredendaal | Lattice | Ring | KEM | CCA2 | 5 | |
| Three Bears Zip file | Mike Hamburg | Lattice | Module | KEM | CCA | 1/4-5/5 | |
| CRYSTALS- KYBER Zip file | Peter Schwabe /Roberto Avanzi /Joppe Bos /Leo Ducas /Eike Kiltz /Tancrede Lepoint /Vadim Lyubashevsky /John M. Schanck /Gregor Seiler /Damien Stehle | Lattice | Module | KEM | CCA2 | 1/3/5 | |
| NTRU | Zhenfei Zhang /Cong Chen /Jeffrey Hoffstein /William Whyte /John M. Schanck /Andreas Hulsing /Joost Rijneveld /Peter Schwabe | Lattice | Ring | KEM Encryption | MERGED from NTRUEncrypt and NTRU-HRSS-KEM | TBA | |
| SABER Zip file | Jan-Pieter D'Anvers /Angshuman Karmakar /Sujoy Sinha Roy /Frederik Vercauteren | Lattice | Module | KEM | CCA | 1/3/5 | |
| Round5 | Oscar Garcia-Morchon /Zhenfei Zhang /Sauvik Bhattacharya /Ronald Rietman /Ludo Tolhuizen /Jose-Luis Torre-Arce /Hayo Baan /Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen /Scott Fluhrer /Thijs Laarhoven | Lattice | Standard, Ring | KEM Encryption | MERGED from Hila5 and Round5 | TBA | |
| NewHope Zip file | Thomas Poppelmann /Erdem Alkim /Roberto Avanzi /Joppe Bos /Leo Ducas /Antonio de la Piedra /Peter Schwabe /Douglas Stebila | Lattice | Ring | KEM | CCA | 1/5 | |
| qTESLA Zip file | Nina Bindel /Sedat Akleylek /Erdem Alkim /Paulo S.L.M. Barreto /Johannes Buchmann /Edward Eaton /Gus Gutoski /Juliane Kramer/ Patrick Longa /Harun Polat / Jefferson E. Ricardini /Gustavo Zanon | Lattice | Ring | Signature | EUF-CMA | 1/3/5 | |
| CRYSTALS- DILITHIUM Zip file | Vadim Lyubashevsky/ Leo Ducas / Eike Kiltz /Tancrede Lepoint/ Peter Schwabe /Gregor Seiler /Damien Stehle | Lattice | Module | Signature | SUF-CMA | 1/2/3 | |
| LAC Zip file | Xianhui Lu /Yamin Liu /Dingding Jia /Haiyang Xue /Jingnan He /Zhenfei Zhang | Lattice | Poly | KEM Encryption | CCA | 1/3/5 | |
| FrodoKEM Zip file | Michael Naehrig /Erdem Alkim /Joppe Bos /Leo Ducas /Karen Easterbrook /Brian LaMacchia /Patrick Longa /Ilya Mironov /Valeria Nikolaenko /Christopher Peikert /Ananth Raghunathan /Douglas Stebila | Lattice | Standard | KEM | CCA | 1/3 | |
| FALCON Zip file | Thomas Prest / Pierre-Alain Fouque /Jeffrey Hoffstein /Paul Kirchner /Vadim Lyubashevsky /Thomas Pornin /Thomas Ricosset /Gregor Seiler /William Whyte /Zhenfei Zhang | Lattice | Ring | Signature | EUF-CMA | 1/2-3/4-5 | |
| LUOV Zip file | Ward Beullens /Bart Preneel / Alan Szepieniec / Frederik Vercauteren | Multivariate Quadratic | Signature | EUF-CMA | 2/4/5 | ||
| GeMSS Zip file | A. Casanova /J.-C. Faugère /G. Macario-Rat J Patarin /L Perret /J Ryckeghem | Multivariate Quadratic | HFE | Signature | EUF-CMA | 1/3/5 | |
| MQDSS Zip file | Simona Samardjiska /Ming-Shing Chen /Andreas Hulsing /Joost Rijneveld /Peter Schwabe | Multivariate Quadratic | Signature | EUF-CMA | 1/3/5 | ||
| Rainbow Zip file | Jintai Ding \Ming-Shing Chen \Albrecht Petzoldt \Dieter Schmidt \Bo-Yin Yang | Multivariate Quadratic | Signature | EUF-CMA | 1/2/3/4/5/6 | ||
| SIKE Zip file | David Jao /Reza Azarderakhsh / Matthew Campagna /Craig Costello / Luca De Feo /Basil Hess /Amir Jalali /Brian Koziel /Brian LaMacchia /Patrick Longa /Michael Naehrig /Joost Renes /Vladimir Soukharev /David Urbanik | SIDH | KEM Encryption | CCA CPA | 1/3 |