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PQShield

PQShield is a cybersecurity company specializing in post-quantum cryptography (PQC). We’re aiming to deliver security and privacy in an increasingly digital world, protecting today’s technology from tomorrow’s attacks. With the advent of quantum computers being able to break traditional cryptographic defenses, we recognize the urgency for every industry to be ready for the quantum-age. PQShield began as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and has grown to become a world-class collaboration of leading cryptographers, researchers, and mathematicians. With teams in Europe, Japan, the US, and the UK, we’re the industry hub of expertise in post-quantum cryptography. We were the first company to develop quantum-safe technology on microchips, in applications, and in the cloud. Our aim is to empower organizations with the ultimate quantum-resistant, FIPS-ready cryptographic solutions - in hardware and software - updating the legacy cryptography components of the world's technology supply chain, and staying one step ahead of the attackers. Read more

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PQPerform Lattice

Up to 1M KeyEnc/sec with improved power efficiency PQPerform-Lattice is a powerful hardware-based product designed for high throughput, high-performance, and high speed. It adds post-quantum cryptography for applications that typically handle a large number of transactions, such as high-capacity network hardware applications and secure key management HSMs. Optimizable for secure boot, as well as other use-cases, PQPerform-Lattice supports FIPS 204 ML-DSA for quantum-secure digital signature verification, as well as FIPS 203 ML-KEM for quantum key exchange. PQPerform-Lattice supports AXI4, PCIe, and is deployable in multiple instances, making it a powerful solution for existing systems and infrastructure requirements.

PQShield
GLOBALFOUNDARIES
12nm
Cryptography Cores, Embedded Security Modules
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PQCryptoLib Embedded

Highly-optimized PQC implementations, capable of running PQC in < 15kb RAM PQCryptoLib-Emebedded is a versatile, CAVP-compliant version of PQCryptoLib, PQShield’s CMVP-certified library of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. With its design focused on ultra-small area efficiency, PQCryptoLib-Embedded has been specifically designed for embedded systems, microcontrollers and memory-constrained devices. It could be the first step towards a hardware solution for providing PQC integration to devices already in the field.

PQShield
Cryptography Software Library, Embedded Security Modules
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PQCryptoLib

FIPS 140-3 CMVP compliant, CAVP PQC cryptographic library designed for PQ/T Hybrid PQCryptoLib is a general-purpose FIPS 140-3 CMVP and CAVP-certified cryptographic library. It’s been designed for a wide variety of applications and provides the latest NIST-standardized post-quantum and classical algorithms in a software environment. With a configurable, secure, and easy-to-use API, PQCryptoLib is optimized for crypto-agility, particularly when it comes to FIPS-compliant hybrid PQ/T solutions, and with crypto-agility in mind, it’s built to protect against the threat of ‘harvest-now-decrypt-later’ attacks. The aim of PQCryptoLib is to help organizations transition smoothly and securely to quantum resistance in a manageable, easy-to-integrate solution.

PQShield
Content Protection Software, Cryptography Software Library
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PQPlatform SubSys

Fully autonomous, FIPS 140-3 CAVP compliant PQC subsystem PQPlatform-SubSys is a cryptographic subsystem, designed to provide offloaded cryptographic services with minimal integration effort and full autonomy from an existing security subsystem, as well as configurable side-channel protection. These services include post-quantum signature generation, verification, and secure key establishment. It’s built with optimal performance in mind, as well as crypto agility with its provision of traditional, PQ/T hybrid and fully post-quantum algorithms. PQPlatform-SubSys uses its built-in RISC-V CPU independently from the surrounding system, allowing cryptographic services to be offloaded efficiently from the system processor.

PQShield
Samsung
12nm
Cryptography Cores, Embedded Security Modules
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PQPlatform Lattice

FIPS 140-3 CAVP-compliant, compact lattice-based hardware PQC engine PQPlatform-Lattice is a compact FIPS 140-3 CAVP-compliant, PQC engine that adds post-quantum support for hardware components and embedded devices, using lattice-based cryptographic algorithms such as ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for post-quantum key exchange, and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) – post-quantum digital signature verification. It provides secure acceleration of lattice-based PQC alongside support for traditional cryptography. Its use cases include strong user authentication, protecting hardware keys, and small-footprint, configurable side-channel protection. PQPlatform-Lattice is designed for minimal area as well as maximum compatibility and can be deployed with optional firmware-backed side-channel countermeasures. It is covered by multiple PQShield implementation patents.

PQShield
GLOBALFOUNDARIES
12nm
Cryptography Cores, Embedded Security Modules
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PQSDK

Post-quantum Software Development Kit Provides easy-to-use software implementations of both post-quantum and classical cryptographic primitives. It’s designed with prototyping and experimentation in mind, consisting of an integration of PQShield’s PQCryptoLib library with two popular high-level cryptography libraries: OpenSSL and mbedTLS. OpenSSL: a widely-adopted secure-communication library mbedTLS: primarily intended for use in embedded system and IoT deployments

PQShield
Cryptography Cores, Cryptography Software Library
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PQPlatform CoPro

FIPS 140-3 CAVP-compliant, compact PQC hardware acceleration for subsystems PQPlatform-CoPro combines hash-based and lattice-based post-quantum cryptography that can be added to an existing security subsystem. It can be optimized for minimum area, maintaining high-performance, and is designed to be run by an existing CPU using PQShield-supplied firmware, meaning it involves low integration effort and flexible configurations to support a wide variety of use cases, including quantum-safe secure boot. Solutions are available for hardware acceleration of SHA-3, SHAKE, ML-KEM, ML-DSA, alongside traditional cryptography. In addition, PQPlatform-CoPro can be configured with side-channel protection. PQPlatform-CoPro is covered by multiple PQShield implementation patents.

PQShield
Cryptography Cores, Embedded Security Modules, Platform Security
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PQPlatform Hash

FIPS 140-3 CAVP compliant ultra-fast, compact, and power efficient secure hash acceleration PQPlatform-Hash is a power side-channel accelerator, supporting a wide range of Hash-Based Signature Schemes (HBSS). PQPlatform-Hash deploys tried-and-tested HBSS including quantum-safe LMS and XMSS (not hybrid). It provides acceleration of HBSS in embedded devices, especially where high throughput is required, or resource constraints necessitate minimal additional area. For example, PQPlatform-Hash is a solution for secure first-stage boot loading with hash-based signature schemes. HBSS offer different trade-offs of memory/area to lattice-based schemes, and as a result, PQPlatform-Hash is ideally suited for smaller key sizes, larger signature sizes, and processing times for key generation, signature generation and verification.

PQShield
Cryptography Cores, Platform Security
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PQPlatform - TrustSys

The only PQC-first RoT with silicon-proven SCA resistance, and FIA PQPlatform-TrustSys is a complete PQC-focused security system that provides architects with the tools needed for the quantum age, and beyond. PQPlatform-TrustSys is a fully updatable Root-of-Trust subsystem, containing advanced post-quantum (ML-KEM, ML-DSA) and classical cryptography (ECC and RSA – essential for hybrid and legacy protocols during transition), enabling bulk encryption, hash acceleration, advanced accelerators for symmetric cryptography, including AES, SHA-2, SHA-3, HMAC, and seamless integration with third-party components. With crypto agility in mind, PQPlatform-TrustSys helps with the PQ/T hybrid secure-boot use case and includes our world-leading fault-tolerance and power/EM side-channel attack countermeasures.

PQShield
Cryptography Cores, Security Subsystems
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