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Full Post Quantum Crypto Support
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This release adds initial NIST FIPS post quantum support, by adding a new key exchange type based on a Curve25519+ML-KEM-1024 hybrid, and a new signature type based on a Ed25519+SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128f hybrid. This also includes a new public controller test, to ensure pq signing works in all operating modes.
Compatibility Notes
- Adding full pq support required a change to the
CryptoKeyAPI, so alternative implementations will need to be modified to support the additional functions required for multi-signature chain support:limit_spk, get_id_spk, get_num_spk. - The CryptoKey API changes mean that once updated to this version, you cannot roll back to older versions without manually downgrading the file storage format for the file-backed CryptoKey (if used), and without moving the entry in the KafkaCryptoConfig file from the new
chainssection back to its original location. - There should be full compatibility between producers/consumers/controllers/chain-servers running different versions, but of course key exchange is only possible if they share at least one signature and one key exchange type.
- The liboqs-java dependency can be painful. See notes in readme.