liboqs version 0.11.0 release candidate 1

liboqs version 0.11.0-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
• 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 of version 0.11.0 of liboqs. It was released on September 13, 2024.

This release updates ML-KEM implementations to their final FIPS 203 versions (OQS continues to support NIST Round 3 version of Kyber for interoperability purposes). 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.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.10.1 release of liboqs.

Key encapsulation mechanisms

• Kyber: Added formally-verified portable C and AVX2 implementations of Kyber-512 and Kyber-768 from libjade.
• ML-KEM: Updated portable C and AVX2 implementations of ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768, and ML-KEM-1024 to FIP 203 version.
• Kyber: Patched ARM64 implementations of Kyber-512, Kyber-768, and Kyber-1024 to work with AddressSanitizer.

Digital signature schemes

• LMS/XMSS: Added implementations of stateful hash-based signature schemes: XMSS and LMS.
• MAYO: Added portable C and AVX2 implementations of MAYO signature scheme from NIST Additional Signatures Round 1.
• CROSS: Added portable C and AVX2 implementations of CROSS signature scheme from NIST Additional Signatures Round 1.

Other changes

• Added callback API to use custom implementations of AES, SHA2, and SHA3.
• Refactor SHA3 implementation to use OpenSSL's EVP_DigestSqueeze() API.

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Detailed changelog

• [NFCI] Move Keccak rhotates tables to rodata by @aaupov in #1739
• Document Fix by @pi-314159 in #1735
• Add option to dynamically load libcrypto.so.* by @ueno in #1603
• Allow windows linking of test programs by @matlimatli in #1751
• Refactor OpenSSL Implementation of SHA3 SHAKE to use new Squeeze API by @Eddy-M-K in #1694
• remove "maximum" words for most length fields by @wangweij in #1747
• add compile_commands.json to .gitignore by @carsonRadtke in #1754
• Fix linking of test programs on msys by @d0p1s4m4 in #1758
• restrict Windows platform support documentation [skip ci] by @baentsch in #1762
• Add workflow dispatch to action by @ryjones in #1778
• Bump jinja2 from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 in /scripts/copy_from_upstream by @dependabot in #1782
• Algorithm selection clarification by @beldmit in #1784
• Use OPENSSL_cleanse if OpenSSL is used by @bencemali in #1773
• Errors not printed out when OPENSSL_NO_STDIO is set by @bencemali in https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/pull/1774f
• Add Stateful Signature (XMSS and LMS) by @ashman-p in #1650
• Forward-declare OQS_SIG in sig_stfl.h by @SWilson4 in #1820
• Move Linux ARM64 "build" test from CircleCI to GitHub Actions by @SWilson4 in #1814
• Fix test_alg_info.py on Windows platform by @qnfm in #1821
• Increment version string to 0.10.2-dev by @SWilson4 in #1813
• Add XMSS-SHA256_{10, 16, 20}_192 parameters by @cothan in #1817
• Add XMSS-SHAKE256_{10, 16, 20}_192 parameters by @cothan in #1818
• Add XMSS-SHAKE256_{10, 16, 20}_256 parameters by @cothan in #1819
• Create scorecard.yml (OpenSSF) by @planetf1 in #1708
• Expose callback API for replacing low-level cryptographic primitives by @ueno in #1832
• Add MAYO signature scheme from NIST onramp by @bhess in #1707
• Bump zipp from 3.4.0 to 3.19.1 in /scripts/copy_from_upstream in the pip group by @dependabot in #1836
• Update and fix CI status badges by @anvega in #1844
• Use cmake -LA -N instead of cmake -LA in CI by @SWilson4 in #1848
• Fix passes.json entries for MAYO by @bhess in #1852
• ML-KEM NIST tests, fix order of d and z by @bhess in #1854
• Move from CircleCI to GitHub Actions by @SWilson4 in #1849
• Add a convenience script for consistent astyle formatting by @SWilson4 in #1861
• Quick fixes from Trail of Bits audit Week 1 by @SWilson4 in #1869
• Check return value of fscanf in LMS/XMSS KAT tests by @SWilson4 in #1874
• Fix downstream CI trigger by @SWilson4 in #1857
• Don't hardcode OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR to /usr on Linux by @SWilson4 in #1873
• Fix overflow in stateful sigs tests by @SWilson4 in #1887
• Integrate Kyber from libjade by @praveksharma in #1745
• Use explicit_memset if available. NetBSD has support for it: by @loganaden in #1872
• Disable erroring TravisCI build by @bhess in #1901
• Update OpenSSH downstream branch to OQS-v9 by @SWilson4 in #1898
• Fix incorrect formatting in unix.yml by @praveksharma in #1902
• CMakeLists: add ppc case to known archs by @barracuda156 in #1816
• Remove old ad hoc CI for Apple M1 by @dstebila in #1907
• Add ML-KEM / FIPS203 final by @bhess in #1899
• Update checkout action in weekly.yml by @praveksharma in #1908
• Add CROSS by @rtjk in #1881
• Refactor liboqs CI and update Ubuntu images by @SWilson4 in #1909
• Check workflows for issues during CI by @jplomas in #1916
• Patch Kyber to fix ASAN error on ARM64 by @praveksharma in #1922

New Contributors

• @aaupov made their first contribution in #1739
• @pi-314159 made their first contribution in #1735
• @ueno made their first contribution in #1603
• @matlimatli made their first contribution in #1751
• @Eddy-M-K made their first contribution in #1694
• @wangweij made their first contribution in #1747
• @carsonRadtke made their first contribution in #1754
• @d0p1s4m4 made their first contribution in #1758
• @ryjones made their first contribution in #1778
• @bencemali made their first contribution in #1773
• @qnfm made their first contribution in #1821
• @anvega made their first contribution in #1844
• @loganaden made their first contribution in #1872
• @barracuda156 made their first contribution in #1816
• @rtjk made their first contribution in #1881
• @jplomas made their first contribution in #1916

Full Changelog: 0.10.1...0.11.0-rc1