Korean post-quantum cryptography competition (KpqC)
South Korea's national post-quantum competition. In January 2025 it selected HAETAE and AIMer (signatures) and SMAUG-T and NTRU+ (KEMs). Only the selected schemes are in our data so far.
- Organiser
- KpqC
- Region
- South Korea
- Stage
- Final selection, since Jan 2025
- Signatures
- 2 candidates
- KEMs
- 2 candidates
Timeline
Competition launched
Round 1: 16 candidates
Round 2: 8 candidates
Final selection: 2 signatures, 2 KEMs
Current ·
Candidates
pk size vs. sig size (log–log scale)
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| Programmes | Assumption | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIMer | Symmetric | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | AIMer-128f | 1 | 32 | 6,944 | 6,976 | 1.18 ms | 1.07 ms | AIM |
| AIMer | Symmetric | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | AIMer-128s | 1 | 32 | 4,704 | 4,736 | 9.14 ms | 9.10 ms | AIM |
| AIMer | Symmetric | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | AIMer-192f | 3 | 48 | 15,408 | 15,456 | 3.81 ms | 3.53 ms | AIM |
| AIMer | Symmetric | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | AIMer-192s | 3 | 48 | 10,320 | 10,368 | 29.08 ms | 29.12 ms | AIM |
| AIMer | Symmetric | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | AIMer-256f | 5 | 64 | 31,360 | 31,424 | 8.00 ms | 7.07 ms | AIM |
| AIMer | Symmetric | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | AIMer-256s | 5 | 64 | 20,224 | 20,288 | 59.58 ms | 57.06 ms | AIM |
| HAETAE | Lattices | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | HAETAE-2 | 2 | 992 | 1,474 | 2,466 | 1.45 ms | 41.1 µs | MLWE/MSIS |
| HAETAE | Lattices | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | HAETAE-3 | 3 | 1,472 | 2,349 | 3,821 | 1.77 ms | 69.1 µs | MLWE/MSIS |
| HAETAE | Lattices | KpqC selectedOn-ramp R1 | HAETAE-5 | 5 | 2,080 | 2,948 | 5,028 | 2.21 ms | 82.9 µs | MLWE/MSIS |
9 parameter sets
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