NCSC Post-Quantum Cryptography pilot opens. Late spring 2026 to 31 March 2027 delivery window. UK PQC migration timeline: 2028 discovery, 2031 high-priority migration, 2035 full migration.

The Mickai SIOS audit ledger is FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 from inception. Not retrofitted. ML-DSA-87 migration is a parameter change, not a redesign.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/ncsc-pqc-pilot-opens-mickai-is-the-substrate-that-already-ships-under-fips-204

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NCSC's Post-Quantum Cryptography pilot opens. Mickai is the substrate that already ships under FIPS 204.

The NCSC's Post-Quantum Cryptography pilot opens in late spring 2026 and runs to 31 March 2027. The pilot exists because most UK organisations are not yet ready for the 2028 cryptographic-discovery milestone, never mind the 2031 high-priority migration. The Mickai SIOS audit ledger is FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 from inception, not retrofitted. This piece maps the pilot's stated intent to the substrate that is already shipping, and opens an invitation to brief.

In order to avoid mindless copy-paste choices for #pqc, how could an interested party begin to approach gaining a working understanding of #FIPS203 #FIPS204 #FIPS205 ? My last instruction was at UPenn by @mattblaze in the late 1990s. I know nothing about elliptic curve algorithms, let alone whatever this new hotness is. Is it possible to understand these ideas without maths like topology?