Verification register Security & Identity
Current reading
Readiness band and full integer triple
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
Readiness band
Emerging
Primary summary from verified readiness
- Confidence
- 74% · stale
- Computed at
- 2026-10-09T21:08:34.852957+00:00
- Claimed
- 35
- Reported
- 35
- Verified
- 25
- Gap
- +10
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed leads verified
Evidence strength Strong
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Agent-assisted assessment · independently reviewed · 2026-10-09
Evaluate HQC in isolated backup-KEM experiments with explicit version controls.
- Why
- HQC provides mathematical diversity, but parameters are changing and older implementation tests expose serious physical side-channel weaknesses.
- Next
- Continue migration with finalized standards; reassess HQC when the official draft and matching implementations are available, including bandwidth and side-channel testing.
Constraints
Blockers
- Unfinished standard and changing parameters
- Older implementation results do not validate the September parameter proposal.
- Large public keys and ciphertexts
- Physical side-channel weaknesses in tested implementations
- Limited independently demonstrated production use
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 8
- Tier 1
- 5
- Tier 2
- 3
- Tier 3
- 0
- Supports
- 1
- Contradicts
- 4
- Context
- 3
- Latest observed
- 2026-09-09
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Revision 3
- 2026-07-19 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.
- 2026-09-22 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.
- 2026-10-01 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.