electricsheepafrica/africa-crypto-algorithm-inventory

Africa Cryptographic Algorithm Inventory

Electric Sheep Africa · Post-Quantum Cryptographic Exposure cluster · dataset DS-2 · v0.1

African digital infrastructure is being recorded by state actors today under the assumption it will be decryptable once quantum computers arrive (2030–2035 per NIST/NCSC/ENISA). This dataset is one dimension of the Africa-specific evidence for that claim.

What this dataset answers

What certificate key algorithms, certificate authorities, and TLS-terminating intermediaries sit in front of high-value African digital infrastructure?

Key findings (v0.1)

• 0 of 30 endpoints use a post-quantum certificate; all use RSA or ECDSA.
• 25 of 30 use a foreign-jurisdiction certificate authority; none use an African one.
• 23 of 30 terminate TLS at a foreign CDN/WAF (Cloudflare, Imperva, CloudFront, F5) — the visible posture is the intermediary's, and the institution's own origin is unobservable from outside.

Files

ds2_crypto_inventory.csv (30 rows)

Column	Example
domain	cbn.gov.ng
country_code	NG
sector	government
in_censys	True
endpoint_ip	104.18.130.27
cert_key_algorithm	ECDSA
cert_key_bits	256.0
cert_signature_algorithm	ECDSA-SHA256
quantum_safe_signature	False
ca_organization	Google Trust Services
ca_country	US
ca_foreign_jurisdiction	True
cert_not_after	2026-08-15T06:26:04Z
hsts	False
foreign_cdn_waf	cloudflare/cloudflare_load_balancer; cloudflare/waf
tls_fingerprint_sha256	89e9e1abc3781b709631642f384b2d8aca9f8d3cd9517edc68d8e998e0c6…

ds2_aggregate_query_plan.txt

Supplementary (non-tabular) file.

Method

Each curated high-value endpoint (banks, government, health) was looked up in the Censys Platform via the free Web Property API, extracting certificate key algorithm and size, issuing CA and its jurisdiction, HSTS, and any CDN/WAF terminating TLS. The country-scale aggregate query plan (CenQL) is included for paid/UI execution.

Sources

Censys Platform Web Property lookup API.

Limitations

30-endpoint curated sample, not a population. Censys Platform free tier blocks the global search/aggregate API (UI/paid only); the included CenQL plan covers the country-scale extension.

How to cite

Electric Sheep Africa (2026). Africa Cryptographic Algorithm Inventory (africa-crypto-algorithm-inventory). African Cryptographic Exposure & Post-Quantum Risk dataset cluster. Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-crypto-algorithm-inventory

@dataset{esa_africa_crypto_algorithm_inventory_2026,
  title  = {Africa Cryptographic Algorithm Inventory},
  author = {Electric Sheep Africa},
  year   = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-crypto-algorithm-inventory}
}

Part of the cluster

This is one of eight datasets in the African Cryptographic Exposure & Post-Quantum Risk cluster by Electric Sheep Africa. The others cover TLS deployment, certificate-authority dependency, algorithm inventory, submarine cable topology, IXP/routing exposure, the regulatory gap, incident history, and PQC migration cost. See the collection on the electricsheepafrica org page.

Methodology & ethics

All collection is passive and uses public data, or standard TLS handshakes against publicly reachable endpoints (the same a browser performs). No interception, no exploitation, no private access. Figures are v0.1 and reproducible from the open collector code.