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# BIKE
- **Algorithm type**: Key encapsulation mechanism.
- **Main cryptographic assumption**: QC-MDPC (Quasi-Cyclic Moderate Density Parity-Check).
- **Principal submitters**: Nicolas Aragon, Paulo Barreto, Slim Bettaieb, Loic Bidoux, Olivier Blazy, Jean-Christophe Deneuville, Phillipe Gaborit, Santosh Gosh, Shay Gueron, Tim Güneysu, Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Rafael Misoczki, Edoardo Persichetti, Nicolas Sendrier, Jean-Pierre Tillich, Valentin Vasseur, Gilles Zémor.
- **Authors' website**: http://bikesuite.org/
- **Specification version**: 4.1.
- **Implementation source**: https://github.com/awslabs/bike-kem, which takes it from:
- https://bikesuite.org/files/v4.1/Reference_Implementation.2020.10.20.2.zip
- **Implementation license (SPDX-Identifier)**: Apache-2.0.
## Parameter set summary
| Parameter set | Security model | Claimed NIST Level | Public key size (bytes) | Secret key size (bytes) | Ciphertext size (bytes) | Shared secret size (bytes) |
|:---------------:|:-----------------|---------------------:|--------------------------:|--------------------------:|--------------------------:|-----------------------------:|
| BIKE-L1 | IND-CPA | 1 | 1541 | 5223 | 1573 | 32 |
| BIKE-L3 | IND-CPA | 3 | 3083 | 10105 | 3115 | 32 |
## BIKE-L1 implementation characteristics
| 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?‡ |
|:------------------------:|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:----------------------|
| master | little endian | All | None | True | True | False |
| master | x86\_64 | Linux,Darwin | AVX2,AVX512,PCLMUL,SSE2 | True | True | 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.
## BIKE-L3 implementation characteristics
| 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? |
|:------------------------:|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:---------------------|
| master | little endian | All | None | True | True | False |
| master | x86\_64 | Linux,Darwin | AVX2,AVX512,PCLMUL,SSE2 | True | True | 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.