Quantum safe CERTificate Infrastructure for Resilient Trust
Keeping Europe's digital trust secure in the quantum era
QCERT builds a quantum-resilient public key infrastructure (PKI) so that the certificates behind e-signatures, digital identity and secure web connections remain trustworthy once quantum computers can break today's cryptography.
- 36 months
- 13 organisations
- 7 countries
- €3.4M EU contribution
- Digital Europe Programme
What QCERT does
Four technical building blocks, tested in real pilots
WP2
Hybrid CA Toolkit
Dual-mode certificate issuance so authorities can sign with classical and post-quantum algorithms side by side.
WP3
Merkle Tree Certificates
Compact, verifiable certificate encodings that keep post-quantum signatures practical at scale.
WP4
PQC-aware TLS
Extending TLS 1.3 handshakes with post-quantum key exchange and signatures, end to end.
WP5
Interoperability & migration
Converters, adapters and validation APIs that bridge legacy PKI and quantum-safe trust.
Consortium
13 organisations, 7 countries
