Investigating Post-Quantum Cryptography: building a PQC decision tree for developers
summary
A decision-support tool presents a fine-grained characteristic matrix comparing seven PQC candidates (Kyber, FrodoKEM, Classic McEliece, Dilithium, Falcon, SPHINCS+, XMSS) plus RSA/ECC, scoring implementation costs (CPU, memory, hardware accel), maturity and security properties (bit-level strength, reductions, side-channel tractability—Falcon flagged as hard to side-channel mitigate and lacking a verified reduction). Industry partners validate the mappings and the team plans an interactive questionnaire that weights answers into a ranked recommendation, with public release targeted for February.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00PQC decision tree project
- 3:54PQC migration limitations
- 7:46Technical scope and algorithms
- 10:17Building characteristic matrix
- 14:13Security analysis comparison
- 16:39Quantitative vs qualitative challenges
- 18:03Linking algorithms to use cases
- 20:30Project timeline and plans
- 21:32Q&A
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