Accelerating Adoption of Quantum-Secure Cryptography in the Real World

Our Purpose

The Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition (PQCC) comes together as a community of technologists, researchers, and expert practitioners to drive progress toward broader understanding and public adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and the associated National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards. The PQCC will emphasize classical cryptosystems with quantum-safe security (vs quantum solutions) to enable information security in an era of cryptographically-relevant quantum computers.

State of the Migration

July 2025 Heatmap: Current State of PQC Standards and Adoption

Heatmap

Standard	Overall Range	Pure PQC encrypt	Hybrid PQ encrypt	Pure PQ sig	Hybrid PQ sig
SSH	3 to 8	3	8	3	3
TLS 1.2¹	0 to 0	0	0	0	0
TLS 1.3²	3 to 9	7	9	7	3
X.509³	4 to 7	7	4	7	4
S/MIME	3 to 7	5	3	7	3
OpenPGP	2 to 4	2	4	4	4
IKE/IPSec	2 to 8	8	8	3	2
MLS	3 to 4	4	4	3	3
DNSSec	1 to 1	-	-	1	1

Transport Issues in Standards	Status
TCP Initial Congestion Window	3
IKE first packet	8
QUIC amplification protection	2

¹ DTLS 1.2, FIDO inherit from TLS 1.2

² DTLS 1.3, MACSEC, FIDO/FIDO 2 inherit from TLS 1.3

³ UEFI inherits from X.509

Key

0	Consensus Against Inclusion
1	Blocked / Stalled
2	In Progress / Chartered
3	Active Proposals / Drafts
4	Progress to Finalization
5	Finalized / Approved
6	Integration Progress
7	Integrated in Libraries
8	Some Adoption
9	Broad Adoption
-	Unknown / NA

What’s New

International PQC Requirements

Jul 17, 2025 | Publications

July 14, 2025This document analyzes international post-quantum cryptography (PQC) requirements.International government regulatory bodies are defining the quantum-resistance requirements to be followed by technology vendors used in national or government security...