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liboqs version 0.4.0

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-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-OpenSSH 7.9 portable 1: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into SSH in our fork of OpenSSH 7.9; see the OQS-master branch of our OpenSSH fork's repository.
  • 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.

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

Release notes

This is version 0.4.0 of liboqs. It was released on August 11, 2020.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.3.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

  • HQC: Added version 2019/08/24
  • NewHope: Update to version 1.1
  • SIKE: Update to version 3.3

Digital signature schemes

  • Dilithium: Use version directly from PQCrystals GitHub
  • Picnic: Update to v3.0

Other changes

  • AES-NI support when liboqs does not use OpenSSL for AES

Deprecations

As a result of NIST's announcement of Round 3 of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project, the 0.4.x series will be the last release(s) of liboqs that contain algorithms from Round 2 that are not Round 3 finalists or alternate candidates. Those algorithms will be removed in the 0.5.0 release. The algorithms in question are: NewHope, ThreeBears, MQDSS, and qTesla. These algorithms are considered deprecated within liboqs and will receive no updates after this release.

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