kyber
CIRCL
| kyber | CIRCL | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 6 | |
| 689 | 1,182 | |
| 2.2% | 2.3% | |
| 5.1 | 8.0 | |
| 4 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| C | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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)
CIRCL
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Lattice Asymetric Encryption
- https://github.com/cloudflare/circl
- Circl: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library
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Is the reference implementation of Classic McEliece in the NIST submission the only good source available for developers out there? General post-quantum questions.
I'm not sure if portability, speed, or general security is on require level here, but Cloudflare's CIRCL library is working on adding support for McEliece, you can find the implementation PR at https://github.com/cloudflare/circl/pull/378
- NIST post-quantum picks Kyber and Dilithium in Go
- NIST announces PQC-algoritms to be standardized
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Hertzbleed Attack
The attack in question was only tested on SIKE, so it seems logical to start targeted disclosure on the community using and developing it, while using the general disclosures to target the broader cryptographic community.
Both Cloudflare and Microsoft are one of the few companies that have put significant investments into developing SIKE for post-quantum cryptography. Microsoft has a SIKE research team, and Cloudflare has been exploring SIKE for post-quantum TLS for years.
Both companies also maintain the key open-source implementations of SIKE [1][2], and Microsoft is spearheading the effort to standardize SIKE through NIST. Most open source cryptographic libraries don't implement SIKE.
[1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/circl
What are some alternatives?
minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.
liboqs-go - Go bindings for liboqs
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]
yubisigner - YubiSigner provides a convenient way to sign and securely verify file signatures with Yubico YubiKey, utilizing an organization's PKI infrastructure.
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.
falcon.py - A python implementation of the signature scheme Falcon
Selenite - An Experimental Rust Crate for Post-Quantum Code-Signing Certificates.
curve25519-voi - High-performance Curve25519/ristretto255 for Go.
libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
PQCrypto-SIKE - This software is part of "Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation", a submission to the NIST Post-Quantum Standardization project.
s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
secp256k1-voi - High assurance Go secp256k1 (Mirror)