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SEALSQ Clears QS7001’s EAL5+ Technical Evaluation
SEALSQ says the QS7001 V1 passed all physical and functional tests in the technical phase of its Common Criteria EAL5+ evaluation. Site audits and submission of the evaluation report to ANSSI remain before formal certification.
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42 prospective customers and partners evaluating the platform
As of September 30, 2026, 42 prospective customers and partners were evaluating SEALSQ’s QS7001 and QVault TPM. On October 27, the company announced that the QS7001 V1 had passed all physical and functional security tests in the technical phase of its Common Criteria EAL5+ certification process. The result marks completion of the technical evaluation, but it is not the formal certificate.
The testing was performed by SERMA Safety & Security, an evaluation laboratory licensed by France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI. SEALSQ said the laboratory’s official letter records a passing verdict for the penetration-test campaign. The letter identifies the claimed assurance level as EAL5 augmented with ALC_DVS.2 and AVA_VAN.5.
“Passing every physical and functional test at the EAL5+ level is the result that matters most to our customers,” said Carlos Moreira, Founder, Chairman and CEO of SEALSQ.
Technical clearance is not certification
Common Criteria EAL5+ evaluation covers a chip’s resistance to physical and side-channel attacks, including fault injection, as well as the correct and secure operation of its security functions, according to the company. SEALSQ said the work follows fault-injection and side-channel testing completed in March 2026 and an NIST SP 800-90B Entropy Source Validation obtained by QS7001 in May 2026. The validation is identified as Certificate #E333.
The certification process has now entered its final phase, according to SEALSQ. Remaining steps include audits of the sites involved in the product’s development, production and engineering assembly. The audit work includes a new scope at the company’s Meyreuil, France, site, which now includes its clean room, as well as renewal audits at two partner sites. SEALSQ schedules the audits for January 2027. Once they have passed, the evaluation report will be submitted to ANSSI for formal issuance of the certificate.
The company says customers can use the completed technical evaluation to move ahead with product design and launch plans while the audits and certificate process continue. SEALSQ described this as a common practice for secure semiconductors at this stage of certification. The announcement does not say that formal certification has already been granted.
QS7001 platform and related products
SEALSQ describes QS7001 as a post-quantum secure-element platform combining a hardware Root of Trust with NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms ML-KEM, specified in FIPS 203, and ML-DSA, specified in FIPS 204, alongside classical cryptography. The company says it develops new secure products by adding dedicated firmware to the QS7001 hardware platform. Its VaultIC409 secure element and QVault TPM, a post-quantum Trusted Platform Module, are built on that basis and are expected to benefit from the same hardware certification level.
SEALSQ said VaultIC409 and QVault TPM will be showcased at electronica 2026 in Munich from November 10 to 13, at Hall C6, booth 670. The company also expects a full post-quantum evaluation of QS7001 V2 in January 2027 and targets formal certification in 2027. The site audits scheduled for January are the next specified step toward submitting the evaluation report to ANSSI.