September 2025 Heatmap: Current State of PQC Standards and Adoption

September 25, 2025
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Heatmap

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Standard
SSH
TLS 1.2¹
TLS 1.3²
X.509³
S/MIME
OpenPGP
IKE/IPSec
MLS
TPM
DNSSec
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Transport Issues in Standards
TCP Initial Congestion Window
QUIC amplification protection
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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

 

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Key

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