ML-KEM Explained: How CRYSTALS-Kyber Became FIPS 203
If your cryptographic inventory still lists “CRYSTALS-Kyber” rather than “ML-KEM (FIPS 203)” as your post-quantum key-establishment mechanism, you likely have at least a nomenclature and conformance-review gap, and possibly an implementation gap as well. NIST finalized FIPS 203 on August 13, 2024, establishing ML-KEM as the first federally standardized post-quantum
