Interoperability & ecosystem
Does it work with anything the customer already has, or only with itself?
Requirements, evidence source, and references
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Interoperability & ecosystem
6 requirementsDoes it work with anything the customer already has, or only with itself?
Compatibility with liboqs and the Open Quantum Safe integrations, as an interoperability baseline.
- Open Quantum Safe — liboqs and its provider/integration listsearch-corroboratedUsed both as an interoperability reference and as a source of candidate vendors. It is a research project, not a standards body — presence on its list is evidence of integration, never of conformance.
Participation in the relevant IETF work, and conformance to the hybrid-TLS design as it stands.
- IETF — Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3 (draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design)search-corroboratedThe interoperability reference for hybrid key exchange. Draft status and the exact codepoint set move; check the datatracker entry before scoring a conformance claim against it.
Demonstrated interoperation with at least one independent implementation, not only with the vendor's own client.
Keys, certificates and messages use standard encodings that another product can consume.
PKI / CAHSMTLS / networkLanguage bindings, platform and architecture coverage relative to what the vendor's market actually runs.
Library / SDKStandard integration interfaces are supported for post-quantum key types, not only for classical ones.
HSM
- Open Quantum Safe — liboqs and its provider/integration listsearch-corroboratedUsed both as an interoperability reference and as a source of candidate vendors. It is a research project, not a standards body — presence on its list is evidence of integration, never of conformance.
- IETF — Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3 (draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design)search-corroboratedThe interoperability reference for hybrid key exchange. Draft status and the exact codepoint set move; check the datatracker entry before scoring a conformance claim against it.
- NSA Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0)search-corroborated2026-08-12Direct PDF read was blocked (HTTP 403) when last attempted; contents corroborated across secondary sources only. Do not upgrade without reading the primary.