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Readiness verdict

FN-DSA (FIPS 206)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Watch

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
69% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:53:19.416024+00:00
Claimed
50

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
45

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
39

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+11

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Growing

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Wait for stronger evidence

Why
Falcon offers the most compact signatures but is still pre-/early-draft, carries documented floating-point/side-channel implementation hazards, and is positioned as special-purpose — not a default signing primitive today.
Next
Default to ML-DSA (FIPS 204, final) for signatures; revisit FN-DSA only after the FIPS 206 public draft lands and validated constant-time implementations exist.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
12
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
10
Tier 3
2
Supports
4
Contradicts
6
Context
2
Latest observed
2026-03-15

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from watch to watch.

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