| falcon | kyber | |
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| 1 | 6 | |
| 20 | 697 | |
| - | 3.3% | |
| 1.6 | 4.0 | |
| 11 months ago | 20 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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falcon
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NIST announces PQC-algoritms to be standardized
Well good thing that some of the cryptographers that created Falcon [0][1] for post-quantum cryptography for digital signatures use cases is considered to be 'standardised' as such.
Looks like Algorand is one of the more serious projects out there with top cryptographers as evidenced by both Algorand and Falcon.
[0] https://falcon-sign.info
[1] https://github.com/algorand/falcon
kyber
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Quantum Computers Break Encryption in China But Far From Cracking Bitcoin
I wouldn’t even be worried about the banks, any mode of encryption used for data would be at stake, but there’s already some algos that are quantum secure made by Crystal Kyber. Here’s their git repo: https://github.com/pq-crystals/kyber.git
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NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography
So, question then, isn't one of the differences between this time's selection, compared to previous selections, that some of the algorithms are open source with their code available.
For example, Kyber, one of the finalists, is here: https://github.com/pq-crystals/kyber
And where it's not open source, I believe in the first round submissions, everyone included reference implementations.
Does the code being available make it easy to verify whether there are some shady/shenanigans going on, even without NIST's cooperation?
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NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
The C reference code is available: https://github.com/pq-crystals/kyber
- NIST announces PQC-algoritms to be standardized
- Kyber key encapsulation mechanism (Post Quantum Cryptography Standardization)
What are some alternatives?
falcon.py - A python implementation of the signature scheme Falcon
minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.
kyber-k2so - Go implementation of the Kyber (version 3) post-quantum IND-CCA2 KEM.
openssl - Fork of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that includes prototype quantum-resistant algorithms and ciphersuites based on liboqs [OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1 is NO LONGER SUPPORTED, please switch to OQS-Provider for OpenSSL 3]
CIRCL - CIRCL: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library
mbedTLS - An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.
pqc.js - JS bindings and playground of post-quantum asymmetric ciphers
Selenite - An Experimental Rust Crate for Post-Quantum Code-Signing Certificates.
pqcrypto.js
libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols