liboqs-python 0.1.0

liboqs-python version 0.1.0

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. See more about liboqs at https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/, including a list of supported algorithms.

liboqs-python is an open source Python 3 wrapper for the liboqs C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Details about liboqs-python can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

Release notes

This release of liboqs-python was released on April 23, 2019. Its release page on GitHub is https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-python/releases/tag/0.1.0.

What's New

This is the first release of liboqs-python.

It contains a Python 3 module wrapper for the liboqs C library, along with examples and tests.

liboqs-python can be compiled against liboqs master branch, and makes available all digital signature schemes and key encapsulation mechanisms from liboqs.