Spencer Wilson aeac3a441d
Pull new HQC implementation from upstream (#1585)
* Update Sphincs+ PQClean patch

* Don't apply PQClean Dilithium and Kyber patches

* Run copy_from_upstream; don't apply Dilithium and Kyber changes

* Run HQC KATs with custom PRNG

* Satisfy astyle

* Add licence for common code

* Fix CI build errors

* Update HQC version, OQS version, and SOVERSION

* Move HQC PRNG into test file

* Satisfy astyle

* Fix SHA3 link error

* Reset HQC issues/passes

* fixup! Fix SHA3 link error

* fix kat_kem linkage to make HQC PR pass CI (#1601)

* fix kat_kem linkage

* remove armhf CI support

* Revert "remove armhf CI support"

This reverts commit af759bbf743bb3ecc2e7315cf10c1785e93bcc05.

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Co-authored-by: Michael Baentsch <57787676+baentsch@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-11-06 16:40:50 -05:00

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# Falcon
- **Algorithm type**: Digital signature scheme.
- **Main cryptographic assumption**: hardness of NTRU lattice problems.
- **Principal submitters**: Thomas Prest.
- **Auxiliary submitters**: Pierre-Alain Fouque, Jeffrey Hoffstein, Paul Kirchner, Vadim Lyubashevsky, Thomas Pornin, Thomas Prest, Thomas Ricosset, Gregor Seiler, William Whyte, Zhenfei Zhang.
- **Authors' website**: https://falcon-sign.info
- **Specification version**: 20211101.
- **Primary Source**<a name="primary-source"></a>:
- **Source**: https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean/commit/0657749a785db30e7f49e9435452cb042edb1852
- **Implementation license (SPDX-Identifier)**: MIT
## Parameter set summary
| Parameter set | Security model | Claimed NIST Level | Public key size (bytes) | Secret key size (bytes) | Signature size (bytes) |
|:---------------:|:-----------------|---------------------:|--------------------------:|--------------------------:|-------------------------:|
| Falcon-512 | EUF-CMA | 1 | 897 | 1281 | 666 |
| Falcon-1024 | EUF-CMA | 5 | 1793 | 2305 | 1280 |
## Falcon-512 implementation characteristics
| 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?‡ |
|:---------------------------------:|:-------------------------|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:----------------------|
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | avx2 | x86\_64 | All | AVX2 | False | False | False |
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | aarch64 | ARM64\_V8 | Linux,Darwin | None | False | False | False |
Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
‡For an explanation of what this denotes, consult the [Explanation of Terms](#explanation-of-terms) section at the end of this file.
## Falcon-1024 implementation characteristics
| 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? |
|:---------------------------------:|:-------------------------|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:---------------------|
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | avx2 | x86\_64 | All | AVX2 | False | False | False |
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | aarch64 | ARM64\_V8 | Linux,Darwin | None | False | False | False |
Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
## Explanation of Terms
- **Large Stack Usage**: Implementations identified as having such may cause failures when running in threads or in constrained environments.