PQShield
UK-based post-quantum cryptography company providing quantum-resistant hardware and software for the technology supply chain.
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Overview
PQShield is a company in Oxford, United Kingdom, focused on post-quantum cryptography. It describes itself as helping to shape how the digital world is protected against future quantum threats, empowering organizations, industries, and nations with quantum-resistant hardware and software solutions. Its team comprises post-quantum cryptographers, researchers and engineers who have been actively involved in the international standardization of post-quantum algorithms. Its product range includes the UltraPQ-Suite of PQC IP for software, FPGA and ASIC, the PQMicroLib-Core embedded library, the PQCryptoLib-Core general-purpose library, and the PQPerform hardware acceleration family.
History
PQShield is a company in Oxford, United Kingdom. It positions itself around real-world, post-quantum hardware and software upgrades aimed at modernizing the vital security systems and components of the world's technology supply chain. The company states that its team comprises a world-class collaboration of post-quantum cryptographers, researchers and engineers who have been actively involved in the international standardization of post-quantum algorithms, and that it was the first cybersecurity company to devel… (source text truncated). Its product portfolio spans software libraries and hardware acceleration IP, including the UltraPQ-Suite for PQC in software, FPGA and ASIC; PQMicroLib-Core, an ultra-small baremetal PQC library for memory-constrained embedded systems; PQCryptoLib-Core, a FIPS 140-3 CMVP certified general-purpose cryptographic library; and the PQPerform hardware family, with PQPerform-Inferno and PQPerform-Flex supporting ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204).
Products and positioning
Real-world, post-quantum hardware and software upgrades modernizing the vital security systems and components of the world's technology supply chain.
UltraPQ-Suite
A range of PQC IP for software, FPGA and ASIC use cases in PQC migration.
PQMicroLib-Core
Ultra-small baremetal PQC library in as little as 5kb RAM, a CAVP-Ready version of PQShield's CMVP-certified PQCryptoLib-Core, tailored for embedded systems and memory-constrained devices.
PQCryptoLib-Core
A FIPS 140-3 CMVP Certified / CAVP Compliant general-purpose cryptographic library for Classical, PQC and PQ/T Hybrid on Linux, Windows and Mac.
PQCryptoLib-SDK
PQCryptoLib-Core plus an OpenSSL 3.x Provider.
PQPerform-Inferno
A highly configurable HW Lattice PQC ultra acceleration solution in AXI4 & PCIe systems, FIPS 140-3 CAVP-certified, supporting ML-DSA (FIPS 204) and ML-KEM (FIPS 203).
PQPerform-Flex
PQPerform-Inferno plus a RISC-V processor for enhanced crypto-agility, supporting ML-KEM and ML-DSA as well as future standards such as HQC.
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