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# HQC
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- **Algorithm type**: Key encapsulation mechanism.
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- **Main cryptographic assumption**: Syndrome decoding of structure codes (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic).
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- **Principal submitters**: Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Nicolas Aragon, Slim Bettaieb, Loïc Bidoux, Olivier Blazy, Jurjen Bos, Jean-Christophe Deneuville, Arnaud Dion, Philippe Gaborit, Jérôme Lacan, Edoardo Persichetti, Jean-Marc Robert, Pascal Véron, Gilles Zémor.
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- **Authors' website**: https://pqc-hqc.org/
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- **Specification version**: 2023-04-30.
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- **Primary Source**<a name="primary-source"></a>:
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- **Source**: https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean/commit/8e221ae797b229858a0b0d784577a8cb149d5789
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- **Implementation license (SPDX-Identifier)**: Public domain
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- **Ancestors of primary source**:
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- https://github.com/SWilson4/package-pqclean/tree/8db1b24b/hqc, which takes it from:
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- submission 2023-04-30 at https://pqc-hqc.org/implementation.html
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## Parameter set summary
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| Parameter set | Parameter set alias | Security model | Claimed NIST Level | Public key size (bytes) | Secret key size (bytes) | Ciphertext size (bytes) | Shared secret size (bytes) |
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| HQC-128 | NA | IND-CCA2 | 1 | 2249 | 2305 | 4433 | 64 |
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| HQC-192 | NA | IND-CCA2 | 3 | 4522 | 4586 | 8978 | 64 |
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| HQC-256 | NA | IND-CCA2 | 5 | 7245 | 7317 | 14421 | 64 |
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## HQC-128 implementation characteristics
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| Implementation source | Identifier in upstream | Supported architecture(s) | Supported operating system(s) | CPU extension(s) used | No branching-on-secrets claimed? | No branching-on-secrets checked by valgrind? | Large stack usage?‡ |
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| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
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Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
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‡For an explanation of what this denotes, consult the [Explanation of Terms](#explanation-of-terms) section at the end of this file.
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## HQC-192 implementation characteristics
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| Implementation source | Identifier in upstream | Supported architecture(s) | Supported operating system(s) | CPU extension(s) used | No branching-on-secrets claimed? | No branching-on-secrets checked by valgrind? | Large stack usage? |
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| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
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Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
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## HQC-256 implementation characteristics
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| Implementation source | Identifier in upstream | Supported architecture(s) | Supported operating system(s) | CPU extension(s) used | No branching-on-secrets claimed? | No branching-on-secrets checked by valgrind? | Large stack usage? |
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| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
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Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
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## Explanation of Terms
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- **Large Stack Usage**: Implementations identified as having such may cause failures when running in threads or in constrained environments. |