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liboqs is ancient #34

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survived opened this issue Nov 29, 2019 · 7 comments
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liboqs is ancient #34

survived opened this issue Nov 29, 2019 · 7 comments

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@survived
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oqs-rs provides binding for liboqs @ 581fbbb which is more than 500 commits behind the current version. I guess there could be critical security changes or other important modifications.

@thomwiggers
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This version of liboqs ships round-1 implementations. We're nearing round 3...

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survived commented Apr 1, 2020

I made a fork of oqs-rs and keeping it compatible with the freshest version of liboqs. However, there're a lot of work to do: like, update documentation, remove dead code and so on, so it's still not comfortable to use.

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liboqs now uses CMake, so I'm afraid that a lot of the work in that fork also needs to be redone...

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I've hacked together my own version at https://github.com/thomwiggers/oqs-rs, there's no friendly wrappers in there yet though. They might appear as I need more algorithms for my own research, but I don't think there's much value in exposing many of the non-PQ-primitive APIs that oqs.h contains (common, random, AES, etc).

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survived commented Apr 1, 2020

The only difference I noticed since moving on CMake is that .lib folder has been renamed to lib. Build system rarely matters if you just link with generated library.

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survived commented Apr 1, 2020

Do you plan to publish your crate?
I did my fork for research purposes too. There's definitely a lack of PQ crates in Rust. Perhaps a large number of research works did not happen due to missing liboqs bindings.

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thomwiggers commented Apr 1, 2020

I'd rather have the crate self-build oqs.

I may, I already maintain http://crates.io/crates/pqcrypto et al, but that depends how 'neat' this crate will get. I have some conference deadlines to meet...

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