# QuantumSafe Technical PoC Scope Template

**Document status:** Draft / Approved  
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## 1. Business objective
- Use case and business outcome
- Data confidentiality lifetime or signature-verification lifetime
- Regulatory and contractual obligations
- Decision that the PoC must support

## 2. In-scope architecture
- Applications and relying parties
- CA/RA/VA/TSA, HSM/QSCD/KMS and signing components
- Operating systems, runtimes, middleware and network boundaries
- Existing RSA/ECC algorithms, certificate profiles and formats

## 3. Target cryptographic profile
- Classical baseline
- PQC algorithm and parameter set
- Hybrid/composition model
- Certificate, CMS, PDF, XML, TLS or API profile
- Downgrade, fallback and rollback policy

## 4. Exact environment manifest
| Component | Product | Version/build | Configuration | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|

## 5. Test plan
- Functional tests
- Security and negative tests
- Interoperability and verifier tests
- Performance and object-size tests
- Recovery, rotation and rollback tests
- Long-term evidence and validation tests

## 6. Required evidence
- Signed test corpus and hashes
- Certificate/CSR/OCSP/CRL/timestamp samples
- Provider and firmware logs
- Environment manifest
- Raw benchmark results
- Known-limitations register
- Approval and exception records

## 7. Acceptance criteria
- Supported combinations and expected results
- Maximum latency, throughput or object-size impact
- Required relying-party compatibility
- Security and compliance gates
- Evidence completeness

## 8. Exclusions
- Capabilities not approved for production wording
- Unsupported operating systems, applications or parameter sets
- Third-party dependencies outside the PoC boundary

## 9. Cutover and rollback
- Pilot activation controls
- Data and key backup
- Rollback trigger and responsible owner
- Evidence retention after rollback

## 10. Decision record
- Proceed / revise / stop
- Approved product status: Pilot / Available / other
- Conditions before production