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Schannel

11,758,114

companies run it, 21.6% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 22,634,967 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 11.8%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

11,757,967 at Sept 26; 11,200,250 twelve months earlier, +557,717, +5.0% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
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2024-086,425864
2024-09264,33835,560
2024-10951,478127,996
2024-111,853,502249,339
2024-122,744,771369,235
2025-013,711,483499,280
2025-024,644,330624,769
2025-035,577,177750,259
2025-046,531,747878,670
2025-057,466,5001,004,416
2025-068,431,5381,134,236
2025-079,388,2621,262,938
2025-0810,350,5411,392,386
2025-0911,200,2501,506,692
2025-1011,797,7331,587,067
2025-1111,965,9891,609,701
2025-1211,919,3601,603,429
2026-0111,888,6211,599,293
2026-0211,922,6581,603,872
2026-0312,037,4241,619,311
2026-0412,029,9581,618,306
2026-0511,995,4631,613,666
2026-0611,979,8301,611,563
2026-0711,916,9781,603,108
2026-0811,851,9251,594,357
2026-0911,757,9671,581,717

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 11,758,114each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
21.6%
companies running anything in TLS and Certificates
30,871,966
38.1%
companies running anything in TLS libraries and stacks
28,940,773
40.6%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Schannel is rank 2 of 3 technologies in TLS libraries and stacks.

Open as a segment

11,758,114 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

Microsoft’s Windows Secure Channel (Schannel) implementation of SSL/TLS.

Schannel is the Windows security support provider that implements SSL/TLS for applications and services on the OS. It provides certificate-based authentication and encrypted network communications on Windows systems.

Kindproduct
VendorMicrosoft, microsoft.com
PathSecurity and Identity > TLS and Certificates > TLS libraries and stacks
Slugschannel
Deploymentself-hosted
Open sourceno
First discovered2025-02-03
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10