\n\tAs organizations race to future-proof their systems against quantum-enabled attacks, questions remain around how to verify whether hardware is quantum-safe. A new industry benchmark aims to answer that question.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Trusted Computing Group (TCG) released new guidance on August 24 that helps prove that trusted platform modules (TPMs) genuinely meet essential PQC requirements.<\/p>\n
\n\tTCG is a nonprofit organization tasked with promoting vendor-neutral standards for hardware-based security products like TPMs.<\/p>\n
\n\tTPMs are specialized security chips installed on a computer motherboard or processor that safely store passwords, digital certificates and encryption keys. TCG, the main standards body, has published the version 1.2 of it specifications<\/a> for second-generation TPMs (TPM 2.0) \u2013 which are part of the Windows 11 system requirements.<\/p>\n \n\tTPMs will likely play an important role in some organizations\u2019 PQC roadmap as they offer a robust solution to maintain trusted identities, platform integrity, attestation and hardware-anchored security over time.<\/p>\n \n\tWith the potential evolution of PQC algorithms over time, these elements \u201cmay need to remain secure for decades,\u201d TCG noted. Not all TPMs currently on the market provide quantum-safe encryption options and some advertise \u201ccompliance\u201d yet fail to provide full, end-to-end security capabilities.<\/p>\n \n\tIn March 2026, the nonprofit brough together almost 90 contributors from government, academia, semiconductor companies and computing hardware providers \u2013 including Intel, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Lenovo, STMIcroelectronics and more \u2013 to develop a standard for PQ-ready TPMs, the TCG PC Client Platform TPM Profile (PTP) 1.07<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe TCG standard document outlines the minimum requirements for PQC-ready TPMs.<\/p>\n