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Readiness verdict

NIST Additional Digital Signatures Round 3

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

Emerging

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
75% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:53:01.106615+00:00
Claimed
30

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
24

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
17

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+13

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Too early to adopt

Why
Genuinely important for non-lattice signature diversity, but the cohort is mid-competition, actively being broken/tweaked, and years from any standard.
Next
Monitor only; rely on standardized ML-DSA/SLH-DSA (and later FN-DSA) for signatures and revisit when one of the nine reaches a draft FIPS after Round 3.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
10
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
8
Tier 3
2
Supports
4
Contradicts
3
Context
3
Latest observed
2026-05-15

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 emerging to emerging.

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