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Readiness verdict

HQC (FIPS 207)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Watch

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
65% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:52:39.165466+00:00
Claimed
55

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
48

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
40

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+15

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Track; not yet

Why
Real algorithm, NIST-selected and code-based diversity is strategically valuable, but it is an unfrozen draft with materially larger keys/ciphertexts and higher cost than ML-KEM, which remains primary.
Next
Watch for the draft FIPS 207 publication in 2026 and pin to ML-KEM as primary; only prototype HQC as a code-based hedge once the FIPS wire format is frozen.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
11
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
4
Tier 3
7
Supports
6
Contradicts
5
Context
0
Latest observed
2025-03-13

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from watch to watch.

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