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Study finds most open-source PQC commits maintain existing support

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A study of 179 open-source repositories finds most post-quantum commits maintain existing support, with build failures leading the issue taxonomy.

Researchers mined 114,361 commits and 5,713 issues across 179 open-source repositories to examine how projects add and keep post-quantum cryptography. Human annotation and a validated LLM classification found that 90% of PQC-algorithm commits maintain existing support rather than introduce it. An 11-category issue taxonomy shows build, packaging, and dependency failures plus functional defects account for about half of categorized issues. After the 2024 NIST finalization, standardized algorithm names appeared in more than 80% of analyzed PQC development changes, though names such as Kyber persisted. First implementations did not rise significantly around standardization milestones. The dataset, taxonomy, annotations, and pipeline are public.

Key facts
  • Corpus covers 114,361 commits and 5,713 issues in 179 repositories.
  • About 90% of PQC-algorithm commits maintain existing support.
  • Build, packaging, dependency, and functional defects are about half of categorized issues.
  • Standardized names appear in more than 80% of analyzed PQC changes after 2024 NIST finalization.
  • First implementations did not increase significantly around NIST milestones.
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Timeline

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  1. Oct 27, 2026Study of PQC adoption across 179 repositories posted · arXiv cs.CR

What each outlet adds

beyond the shared facts
  • arXiv cs.CRCommit and issue counts, 90% maintenance share, and public dataset
Products
ML-KEMCRYSTALS-KyberML-DSACRYSTALS-DilithiumFALCON
Organizations
NIST

Coverage

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  1. · 3d ago arXiv cs.CRFirst report

    Study finds most open-source PQC commits are maintenance

    Across 179 repositories, 90% of PQC commits maintain existing support, and build failures dominate the issue taxonomy.

  2. · 2d ago arXiv cs.CR

    Study compares Kyber, Dilithium and FALCON in simulated vehicle links

    Rural V2V and urban V2X runs also include an ECDSA/ECDH baseline measured in the same setup.