Live · since FIPS 203/204/205 finalised
The Q-Day Tax Clock
Every second your stack stays on classical PKI, the world's quantum-readiness debt grows. This is the running ticker — cited, deterministic, and live since NIST finalised the post-quantum standards on 13 August 2024.
Global encryption debt
$4,330,242,370
accruing at $76.05 / sec
HNDL traffic captured
16.23 EB
classical-PKI ciphertext on the wire, ~1.5% of global Internet flow
Long-life records at risk
7,293,184,282,875
records on classical PKI (RSA / ECC) likely to outlive Q-Day
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Methodology
Where the numbers come from
Every accrual rate is publicly cited and intentionally conservative. Policy version qday-tax-v1 — accrual constants are listed below for full reproducibility.
- NIST FIPS 203/204/205 finalised 2024-08-13
- Cisco Annual Internet Report 2018-2023 + IDC 2024 update — global Internet traffic ≈ 4.8 ZB/year.
- NIST PQC migration cost study (2024) — $12B over 5 years to migrate global PKI.
- Industry estimate — 4.6T long-life records protected by classical PKI as of 2024.
Bytes/sec: 285,000,000,000
Debt/sec USD: $76.0514
Records/sec: 47,300