29 Nov 16:51

dstebila

d0d0413

liboqs version 0.12.0 release candidate 1 Pre-release

Pre-release

liboqs version 0.12.0-rc1

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-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
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.
OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

C++, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-cpp
Go, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-go
Java, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-java
Python 3, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-python
Rust, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-rust

Release notes

This is release candidate 1 for version 0.12.0 of liboqs. It was released on November 29, 2024.

This release updates the ML-DSA implementation to the final FIPS 204 version. This release still includes the NIST Round 3 version of Dilithium for interoperability purposes, but we plan to remove Dilithium Round 3 in a future release.

Deprecation notice

This will be the last release of liboqs to include Kyber (that is, the NIST Round 3 version of Kyber, prior to its standardization by NIST as ML-KEM in FIPS 203). Applications should switch to ML-KEM (FIPS 203).

The addition of ML-DSA FIPS 204 final version to liboqs has introduced a new signature API which includes a context string parameter. We are planning to remove the old version of the API without a context string in the next release to streamline the API and bring it in line with NIST specifications. Users who have an opinion on this removal are invited to provide input at #2001.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.11.0 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

HQC: Fixed correctness bug in decapsulation. Thank you to Célian Glénaz and Dahmun Goudarzi from Quarkslab for identifying the issue.
Kyber: This is the last release of liboqs to include Kyber.
ML-KEM: Improved testing of ML-KEM.

Digital signature schemes

LMS: Fixed crashing bug.
ML-DSA: Removed FIPS 204-ipd (initial public draft) and replaced it with FIPS 204 final version.
Added new API for digital signatures with context strings; see #2001 for plan to remove old API without context string.
Added fuzzing tests for signature schemes.
Added benchmarking for stateful hash-based signature schemes.

Other changes

Updated CBOM format to version 1.6.
Added a function OQS_thread_stop to be called by multi-threaded applications to properly deallocate resources in a threaded execution.
Added preprocessor macros conveying liboqs version information.

Detailed changelog

What's Changed

0.11.0 release by @praveksharma in #1939
Bump version to 0.11.1-dev by @SWilson4 in #1940
Remove hardcoded build patch from test script by @iyanmv in #1938
Don't include dlfcn.h for Windows by @steenrasmussen in #1936
Update CBOM format to upstream v1.6 by @bhess in #1834
Downgrade zephyr container to v0.26.14 to avoid build failures by @bhess in #1949
Fix for Zephyr CI by @Frauschi in #1953
Add a basic fuzz testing harness for Dilithium2 by @nathaniel-brough in #1905
[#1823] replace malloc/calloc/strdup/free with openssl allocator by @songlingatpan in #1926
Add benchmarking for stateful hash based schemes: speed_sig_stfl by @cr-marcstevens in #1952
Update CODEOWNERS by @dstebila in #1943
Add new API to cleanup OpenSSL threads. by @ashman-p in #1959
Adapt existing sig fuzz harness including more algorithms by @nathaniel-brough in #1955
add C++ linking test by @aidenfoxivey in #1971
Make random/functions deterministic during fuzzing by @nathaniel-brough in #1974
Remove SPHINCS+ aarch64 code by @SWilson4 in #1972
Remove macos-12 runner due to GitHub deprecation. by @SWilson4 in #1977
Revert "Disable erroring TravisCI build" by @bhess in #1960
imported fix from CROSS upstream: endianness-aware csprng by @rtjk in #1983
chore: Add CI badges to README.md by @ChinoUkaegbu in #1987
Update PLATFORMS.md / re-enable CROSS on s390x by @SWilson4 in #1988
Avoid OpenSSL functions are unconditionally called at OQS_destroy by @ueno in #1982
Test Improvements for ML-KEM by @abhinav-thales in #1947
Fix LMS crash by @ashman-p in #1998
Set ML-KEM alg_version to "FIPS203" by @SWilson4 in #1997
Add ML-DSA / FIPS 204 final by @bhess in #1919
Add defines for OQS version components by @dstebila in #2000

New Contributors

@steenrasmussen made their first contribution in #1936
@nathaniel-brough made their first contribution in #1905
@songlingatpan made their first contribution in #1926
@cr-marcstevens made their first contribution in #1952
@aidenfoxivey made their first contribution in #1971
@ChinoUkaegbu made their first contribution in #1987
@abhinav-thales made their first contribution in #1947

Full Changelog: 0.11.0...0.12.0-rc1

Contributors

ueno, bhess, and 14 other contributors

Assets 2

0 Join discussion

27 Sep 16:08

praveksharma

0.11.0

6f30d7e

liboqs version 0.11.0 Latest

Latest

liboqs version 0.11.0

About

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-provider: A standalone prototype OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key authentication and exchange for TLS 1.3, X.509 certificate generation and CMS operations.
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.
OQS-OpenSSH: A prototype integration of liboqs-based authentication and key exchange into Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 in our fork of OpenSSH; see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh.

Several demos are available for using the above libraries in applications, including Apache, Chromium, curl, haproxy, nginx, and Wireshark.

liboqs can also be used in the following programming languages via language-specific wrappers:

C++, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-cpp
Go, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-go
Java, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-java
Python 3, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-python
Rust, via https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-rust

Release notes

This is version 0.11.0 of liboqs. It was released on September 26, 2024.

This release updates ML-KEM implementations to their final FIPS 203 versions. This release still includes the NIST Round 3 version of Kyber for interoperability purposes, but we plan to remove Kyber Round 3 in a future release. Additionally, this release adds support for MAYO and CROSS digital signature schemes from NIST Additional Signatures Round 1 along with stateful hash-based signature schemes XMSS and LMS. Finally, this release provides formally verified implementations of Kyber-512 and Kyber-768 from libjade.

LMS and XMSS are disabled by default due to the security risks associated with their use in software. See the note on stateful hash-based signatures in CONFIGURE.md.