State of the Migration

PQCC convenes monthly to discuss and categorize the current status of PQC standards. Featured here are the current and past heatmaps released by PQCC.

June 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 8 7 8 7 3
X.509³ 4 to 7 7 4 7 4
S/MIME 4 to 4 4 4 4 4
OpenPGP 2 to 4 2 4 4 4
IKE/IPSec 2 to 8 8 8 3 2
MLS 2 to 4 4 4 2 2
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
                     

Past Heatmaps

 

May 2025 Heatmap




April 2025 Heatmap

 

 



March 2025 Heatmap