NIST IR 8547
NIST's report on transitioning to post-quantum standards, which proposes deprecating RSA-2048 and ECDSA-P256 by 2030 and disallowing them by 2035. It is the clearest published deadline for retiring classical public-key cryptography.
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The NSA's post-quantum algorithm suite and transition timeline for US national-security systems, built around ML-KEM and ML-DSA. Its dates are widely used as a pacing signal even by organisations it does not bind.
A structured record of every algorithm, key, certificate, protocol, library and vendor dependency in an organisation. It is the mandatory first step of a post-quantum migration, because you cannot replace what you cannot enumerate.
The three post-quantum standards NIST finalised in August 2024: FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) for key establishment, FIPS 204 (ML-DSA) for general-purpose signatures, and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) for hash-based signatures.