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# 7. Roadmap

```mermaid
timeline
    title Cryptic Development Roadmap
    section Phase 1 MVP
        Q1 2026 : ✅ Dilithium3 & Kyber768
                : ✅ SecretVM Deployment
                : ✅ JWT & Chain Auth
                : ✅ Session Keys
                : ✅ Production Ready
    section Phase 2 Enterprise
        Q2 2026 : 🔨 CloudHSM Integration
                : 🔨 Derived Key Mode
                : 🔨 Multi-Region Deploy
                : 🔨 GraphQL API
                : 🔨 SIEM Integration
    section Phase 3 Advanced
        Q3 2026 : 🔮 SPHINCS+ Support
                : 🔮 Threshold Signatures
                : 🔮 Blind Signatures
                : 🔮 ZK Proofs
                : 🔮 PQ-TLS Termination
    section Phase 4 Ecosystem
        Q4 2026 : 🌟 Open Source Release
                : 🌟 Client SDKs
                : 🌟 Self-Hosted Options
                : 🌟 Kubernetes Operator
                : 🌟 Standards Participation
```

#### Phase 1: MVP (Current - Q1 2026) ✅

**Status**: Production Deployed

**Features:**

* ✅ Dilithium3 and Kyber768 implementation
* ✅ SecretVM deployment with TEE attestation
* ✅ JWT and chain signature authentication
* ✅ Session key mode (RAM-only)
* ✅ RESTful JSON API
* ✅ Rate limiting and audit logging
* ✅ Docker containerization

**Metrics:**

* Response time: < 50ms P50
* Key generation: 1,000/second
* Concurrent users: 100+

#### Phase 2: Enterprise Features (Q2 2026)

**Timeline**: April - June 2026

**Features:**

* 🔨 AWS CloudHSM integration (FIPS 140-2 Level 3)
* 🔨 Derived key mode (deterministic generation)
* 🔨 Time-limited key mode with auto-expiration
* 🔨 Multi-region deployment (US, EU, APAC)
* 🔨 Vault integration for advanced key hierarchy
* 🔨 GraphQL API (in addition to REST)
* 🔨 Webhook notifications
* 🔨 Advanced audit logging (SIEM integration)

**Target Customers:**

* Financial institutions requiring FIPS
* Enterprises with compliance requirements
* Certificate authorities

#### Phase 3: Advanced Cryptography (Q3 2026)

**Timeline**: July - September 2026

**Features:**

* 🔮 SPHINCS+ (stateless hash-based signatures)
* 🔮 Falcon (NIST alternative signature scheme)
* 🔮 Threshold signatures (multi-party computation)
* 🔮 Blind signatures for privacy
* 🔮 Zero-knowledge proofs integration
* 🔮 Hybrid classical/PQC dual signatures
* 🔮 Post-quantum TLS termination

**Research Initiatives:**

* Academic partnerships for cryptanalysis
* Formal verification of implementations
* Side-channel attack resistance testing

#### Phase 4: Ecosystem & Standards (Q4 2026)

**Timeline**: October - December 2026

**Features:**

* 🌟 Open-source core release
* 🌟 Client SDKs (Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, Swift)
* 🌟 Integration guides for major frameworks
* 🌟 NIST PQC competition algorithms (if standardized)
* 🌟 Self-hosted deployment options
* 🌟 Kubernetes operator
* 🌟 Terraform modules

**Standards Work:**

* IETF PQC standards participation
* W3C Web Crypto API proposals
* FIDO2 post-quantum extensions

#### Long-Term Vision (2027+)

**Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Integration:**

* Hardware QKD network integration
* Quantum-resistant + quantum-safe hybrid

**Hardware Acceleration:**

* Custom ASIC for PQC operations
* FPGA acceleration in data centers

**Decentralized Architecture:**

* Multi-party threshold key management
* No single point of trust
* Byzantine fault tolerance