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liboqs version 0.12.0

10 Dec 01:29
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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.12.0 of liboqs. It was released on December 9, 2024.

This release updates the ML-DSA implementation to the final FIPS 204 version. This release still includes the NIST Round 3 version of Dilithium for interoperability purposes, but we plan to remove Dilithium Round 3 in a future release.

Deprecation notice

This will be the last release of liboqs to include Kyber (that is, the NIST Round 3 version of Kyber, prior to its standardization by NIST as ML-KEM in FIPS 203). Applications should switch to ML-KEM (FIPS 203).

The addition of ML-DSA FIPS 204 final version to liboqs has introduced a new signature API which includes a context string parameter. We are planning to remove the old version of the API without a context string in the next release to streamline the API and bring it in line with NIST specifications. Users who have an opinion on this removal are invited to provide input at #2001.

Security issues

  • CVE-2024-54137: Fixed bug in HQC decapsulation that leads to incorrect shared secret value during decapsulation when called with an invalid ciphertext. Thank you to Célian Glénaz and Dahmun Goudarzi from Quarkslab for identifying the issue.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.11.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • HQC: Fixed bug in decapsulation that leads to incorrect shared secret value during decapsulation when called with an invalid ciphertext. Thank you to Célian Glénaz and Dahmun Goudarzi from Quarkslab for identifying the issue.
  • Kyber: This is the last release of liboqs to include Kyber.
  • ML-KEM: Improved testing of ML-KEM.

Digital signature schemes

  • LMS: Fixed crashing bug.
  • ML-DSA: Removed FIPS 204-ipd (initial public draft) and replaced it with FIPS 204 final version.
  • Added new API for digital signatures with context strings; see #2001 for plan to remove old API without context string.
  • Added fuzzing tests for signature schemes.
  • Added benchmarking for stateful hash-based signature schemes.

Other changes

  • Updated CBOM format to version 1.6.
  • Added a function OQS_thread_stop to be called by multi-threaded applications to properly deallocate resources in a threaded execution.
  • Added preprocessor macros conveying liboqs version information.

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liboqs version 0.11.0

27 Sep 16:08
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liboqs version 0.11.0

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.11.0 of liboqs. It was released on September 26, 2024.

This release updates ML-KEM implementations to their final FIPS 203 versions. This release still includes the NIST Round 3 version of Kyber for interoperability purposes, but we plan to remove Kyber Round 3 in a future release. Additionally, this release adds support for MAYO and CROSS digital signature schemes from NIST Additional Signatures Round 1 along with stateful hash-based signature schemes XMSS and LMS. Finally, this release provides formally verified implementations of Kyber-512 and Kyber-768 from libjade.

LMS and XMSS are disabled by default due to the security risks associated with their use in software. See the note on stateful hash-based signatures in CONFIGURE.md.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.10.1 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Kyber: Added formally-verified portable C and AVX2 implementations of Kyber-512 and Kyber-768 from libjade.
  • ML-KEM: Updated portable C and AVX2 implementations of ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768, and ML-KEM-1024 to FIP 203 version.
  • Kyber: Patched ARM64 implementations of Kyber-512, Kyber-768, and Kyber-1024 to work with AddressSanitizer.

Digital signature schemes

  • LMS/XMSS: Added implementations of stateful hash-based signature schemes: XMSS and LMS.
  • MAYO: Added portable C and AVX2 implementations of MAYO signature scheme from NIST Additional Signatures Round 1.
  • CROSS: Added portable C and AVX2 implementations of CROSS signature scheme from NIST Additional Signatures Round 1.

Other changes

  • Added callback API to use custom implementations of AES, SHA2, and SHA3.
  • Refactor SHA3 implementation to use OpenSSL's EVP_DigestSqueeze() API.

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0.10.1

07 Jun 15:30
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liboqs version 0.10.1

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.10.1 of liboqs. It was released on June 7, 2024.

This release is a security release which fixes potential non-constant-time behaviour in ML-KEM and Kyber based on pq-crystals/kyber@0264efa and pq-crystals/kyber@9b8d306. It also includes a fix for incorrectly named macros in the ML-DSA implementation.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.10.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Kyber: portable C implementation updated
  • ML-KEM: portable C implementation updated

Digital signature schemes

  • ML-DSA: incorrectly named macros renamed

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0.10.0

23 Mar 13:05
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liboqs version 0.10.0

About

The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.10.0 of liboqs. It was released on March 20, 2024.
This release adds support for ML-KEM (previously known as CRYSTALS-Kyber) and ML-DSA (previously known as CRYSTALS-Dilithium), based on the initial public drafts of FIPS 203 and FIPS 204, respectively. OQS continues to support the NIST Round 3 versions of Kyber and Dilithium for interoperability purposes. This release additionally updates HQC to the NIST Round 4 version and adds support for fixed-length Falcon signatures.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.9.2 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • BIKE: Updated portable C implementation to include constant-time fixes from upstream.
  • HQC: Updated to NIST Round 4 version.
  • ML-KEM: Added portable C and AVX2 implementations of Initial Public Draft (IPD) versions of ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768, and ML-KEM-1024.

Digital signature schemes

  • Falcon: Updated portable C, AVX2, and AArch64 implementations to support fixed-length (PADDED-format) signatures. Fixed the maximum length of variable-length signatures to comply with the NIST Round 3 specification.
  • ML-DSA: Added portable C and AVX2 implementations of Initial Public Draft (IPD) versions of ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65, and ML-DSA-87.

Other changes

  • Improved thread safety.
  • Added uninstall support via ninja uninstall
  • Documented platforms by support tier in PLATFORMS.md.
  • Added support for Zephyr RTOS.
  • Improved support for macOS on Apple Silicon.
  • Removed support for the "NIST-KAT" DRBG.
  • Added extended KAT test programs.

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liboqs version 0.9.2

17 Jan 01:38
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liboqs version 0.9.2

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.9.2 of liboqs. It was released on January 16, 2024.

This release is a security release which fixes potential non-constant-time behaviour in Kyber based on pq-crystals/kyber@272125f

What's New

This release continues from the 0.9.1 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Kyber: C, AVX2, and aarch64 implementation updated

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liboqs version 0.9.1

22 Dec 20:28
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liboqs version 0.9.1

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.9.1 of liboqs. It was released on December 22, 2023.

This release is a security release which fixes potential non-constant-time behaviour in Kyber based on pq-crystals/kyber@dda29cc

What's New

This release continues from the 0.9.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Kyber: C, AVX2, and aarch64 implementation updated

Detailed changelog

  • pull kyber from upstream: dda29cc63af721981ee2c831cf00822e69be3220 (#1631) by @dstebila in #1633
  • Apply patch to Kyber aarch64 code from PQClean for variable-time division issue -> targeting 0.9.1 by @bhess in #1637

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liboqs version 0.9.0

12 Oct 20:43
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liboqs version 0.9.0

About

The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.9.0 of liboqs. It was released on October 12, 2023.

This release features an update to the Classic McEliece KEM, bringing it in line with NIST Round 4. It also adds or updates ARM implementations for Kyber, Dilithium, and Falcon.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.8.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Classic McEliece: updated to Round 4 version.
  • Kyber: aarch64 implementation updated.

Digital signature schemes

  • Dilithium: aarch64 implementation updated.
  • Falcon: aarch64 implementation added.

Other changes

  • Update algorithm documentation
  • Support compilation for Windows on ARM64, Apple mobile, and Android platforms
  • Improve resilience of randombytes on Apple systems

Release call

Users of liboqs are invited to join a webinar on Thursday, November 2, 2023, from 12-1pm US Eastern time for information on this release, plans for the next release cycle, and to provide feedback on OQS usage and features.

The Zoom link for the webinar is: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/98288698086


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liboqs version 0.8.0

08 Jun 00:51
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liboqs version 0.8.0

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of OpenSSL 1.1.1; see the OQS-OpenSSL-1_1_1-stable branch of our OpenSSL fork's repository.
  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.8.0 of liboqs. It was released on June 7, 2023.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.7.2 release of liboqs.

This release features many algorithm updates, including removal of algorithms and variants no longer proceeding through NIST standardization and updates to newer versions. See the detailed list of algorithm updates below.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • BIKE: updated to Round 4 version.
  • Kyber: 90s variants were removed.
  • NTRU Prime: All variants were removed, except for sntrup761.
  • Saber: removed.

Digital signature schemes

  • Dilithium; AES variants were removed.
  • Falcon: updated to the 2023-02-07 version.
  • Picnic: removed.
  • Rainbow: removed.
  • SPHINCS+: updated to version 3.1; SPHINCS+-Haraka variants were removed; SPHINCS+-SHA256 and SPHINCS+-SHAKE variants were renamed

Other changes

  • Add Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM)
  • Improve building on ARM platforms
  • Improve performance when using OpenSSL 3 for symmetric cryptography
  • Increment shared object library version
  • New configure-time options for algorithm selections
  • pkgconfig file now available

Known issues

  • Issue #1488: 32-bit builds fail in Microsoft Visual C for Falcon AVX code

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liboqs version 0.7.2

21 Aug 19:54
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liboqs version 0.7.2

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of OpenSSL 1.1.1; see the OQS-OpenSSL-1_1_1-stable branch of our OpenSSL fork's repository.
  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, and post-quantum and hybrid X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.7.2 of liboqs. It was released on August 21, 2022.

Security considerations

This release removes Rainbow level 1 and all variants of SIDH and SIKE due to cryptanalytic breaks of those algorithms. Users are advised to move away from use of those algorithms immediately.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.7.1 release of liboqs.

The goal of this release is to provide a final release for algorithms that were included in Round 3 of the NIST Post-Quantum Standardization project. As the security status of some algorithms changed during Round 3, it drops algorithms known to be broken as of release (Rainbow level 1, SIKE). Some algorithms also updated their specification during Round 3; version 0.7.2 does not incorporate any algorithm changes that result in different input/output behaviour compared to version 0.7.1; such changes will included in version 0.8.0.

The next release of liboqs, version 0.8.0, will remove some algorithms that did not advance beyond NIST Round 3, update implementations based on algorithm/specification revisions that happened during Round 3, and begin to incorporate Round 4 changes. Discussion of algorithms to be removed in version 0.8.0 can be found in #1245.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Kyber: Update implementation and switch use of symmetric crypto to OQS common code
  • HQC: Fix build on gcc-12
  • SIKE: Remove SIKE due to break (https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975)

Digital signature schemes

  • Dilithium: Add ARMv8 optimized implementation and switch use of symmetric crypto to OQS common code
  • Picnic: Update implementation
  • Rainbow: Remove Rainbow level 1 due to break (https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/214)

Other changes

  • Add support for building on powerpc64
  • Update XKCP implementation
  • Improve SHA2 implementation on ARMv8
  • Improve AES implementation on ARMv8
  • Add aarch64 CPU feature detection on FreeBSD
  • Improve cross-compiling on Windows
  • Enable integration of liboqs into other CMake-based projects
  • Increment shared object library version

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liboqs version 0.7.1

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liboqs version 0.7.1

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The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project has the goal of developing and prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography. More information on OQS can be found on our website: https://openquantumsafe.org/ and on Github at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/.

liboqs is an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

liboqs can be used with the following Open Quantum Safe application integrations:

  • OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of OpenSSL 1.1.1; see the OQS-OpenSSL-1_1_1-stable branch of our OpenSSL fork's repository.
  • oqs-provider: A standalone prototype of liboqs-based key exchange for TLS 1.3 using the OpenSSL 3 (alpha) provider integration mechanism.
  • OQS-BoringSSL: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into TLS 1.3 in our fork of BoringSSL; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl.
  • OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark. Performance of liboqs in several settings is measured at https://openquantumsafe.org/benchmarking/.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

Release notes

This is version 0.7.1 of liboqs. It was released on December 16, 2021.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.7.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • Add NTRU level 5 parameter sets (ntruhps40961229, ntruhrss1373)
  • Add NTRU Prime level 5 parameter sets (ntrulpr1277, sntrup1277)
  • Add ARMv8 aarch64 optimized implementations of Kyber and SABER
  • Minor updates to Kyber, NTRU, NTRU Prime, and SIKE implementations

Digital signature schemes

  • Minor updates to Dilithium implementation

Other changes

  • Optimized AES implementation on ARMv8 with crypto extensions.
  • Preliminary support for building on S390x platform
  • Improved build configurations on ARM platforms
  • Improvements to benchmarking harness, with improved precision on ARM platforms

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