ML-DSA Explained: How CRYSTALS-Dilithium Became FIPS 204
If your organization deployed CRYSTALS-Dilithium during the NIST competition years and you are treating ML-DSA as a drop-in successor, you likely have a key rotation problem that library patching alone may not resolve. NIST published FIPS 204 on August 13, 2024, making ML-DSA an active federal standard — and Appendix D