What is PQ Crypta?
A post-quantum cryptography platform in three layers. The Discovery Agent and dashboard find the cryptography an organisation runs and export it as a CycloneDX CBOM. PQCrypta Proxy, an open-source HTTP/3 reverse proxy, puts hybrid ML-KEM key exchange in front of existing services. An API of 35 algorithm engines carries post-quantum encryption and signatures into applications. This site is served by the proxy, and its API is the one documented here.
Why migrate to post-quantum cryptography now?
Traffic recorded today can be decrypted once a cryptographically relevant quantum computer exists: the attack known as harvest now, decrypt later. Executive Order 14412 sets the federal deadlines, post-quantum key establishment by December 31, 2030 and digital signatures by December 31, 2031, and OMB memo M-26-15 makes an inventory of cryptographic systems the first phase.
Where does a migration start?
With an inventory. The Discovery Agent is read-only and runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It finds certificates, keys, keystores, live TLS endpoints and weak-crypto calls in source, classifies each by its NIST OID, and exports a CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM that validates against the official schema.
Which algorithms does the API offer?
35 engines, 33 of them post-quantum: ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA (FIPS 205), FN-DSA, HQC, FrodoKEM and Classic McEliece, alone and in hybrids with X25519 and Ed25519, and 2 classical engines to compare them with. The health check runs every engine end to end: key generation, encryption and decryption.
Can I call it from my own application?
Yes. The REST API at api.pqcrypta.com has 691 endpoints, 171 of them usable without a key, and the documentation gives each one's request and response. The engines also run in the browser as WebAssembly.
What does PQ Crypta offer for HTTP/3 and QUIC?
Its own HTTP/3 edge, PQCrypta Proxy, serving QUIC with post-quantum key exchange, WebTransport, MASQUE and multipath QUIC; the Post-Quantum Web Analyzer, which grades any domain's HTTP/3 and QUIC deployment and keeps a directory of 691 sites; an HTTP/3 conformance suite of 59 adversarial tests, run against 12 client libraries; a public MASQUE CONNECT-UDP relay; and a speed test and telemetry wall that measure QUIC against TCP on your own link.
Does PQ Crypta run its own DNS?
Yes: 4 authoritative name servers answer for its zones over UDP and TCP and over DNS over QUIC, DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS (HTTP/2 and HTTP/3), every encrypted answer with a post-quantum key exchange (X25519 + ML-KEM-768 or ML-KEM-1024). Its 5 zones are DNSSEC-signed by a hidden signer that no resolver can reach, and the Post-Quantum Web Analyzer verifies the chain from the root's key down at every scan. The same analyzer measures any domain's name servers this way.
Is the proxy open source?
Yes, under the Apache 2.0 licence. PQCrypta Proxy is written in Rust and serves HTTP/3 over QUIC and HTTP/2 over TCP with hybrid post-quantum key exchange on every listener, Encrypted Client Hello with post-quantum HPKE, WebTransport, MASQUE, JA3/JA4 fingerprinting and a WAF.
What are the PDF tools?
pqpdf.com, our sister site, offers 45 server-side PDF tools without an account. Its PDF threat scanner runs 47 forensic engines and is listed in NIST's Forensic Tool Catalog; its Office document scanner runs 23.