liboqs/RELEASE.md

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liboqs version 0.5.0-dev

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 the development branch for future version 0.5.0 of liboqs.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.4.0 release of liboqs.

Deprecations

As a result of NIST's announcement of Round 3 of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project, the 0.4.x series was the last release of liboqs that contain algorithms from Round 2 that are not Round 3 finalists or alternate candidates. Those algorithms have be removed in the 0.5.0 series. The algorithms in question are: NewHope, ThreeBears, MQDSS, and qTesla.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

Digital signature schemes

Other changes