0.5.1

oqs-provider 0.5.1

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/.

oqs-provider is a standalone OpenSSL 3 provider enabling liboqs-based quantum-safe and hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, as well as quantum-safe and hybrid X.509 certificate generation, CMS and dgst operations.

When deployed, the oqs-provider binary (shared library) thus adds support for quantum-safe cryptographic operations to any standard OpenSSL(v3) installation.

In general, the oqs-provider main branch is meant to be useable in conjunction with the main branch of liboqs and the master branch of OpenSSL.

Further details on building, testing and use can be found in README.md. See in particular limitations on intended use.

Release notes

This is version 0.5.1 of oqs-provider.

Security considerations

None.

What's New

This release continues from the 0.5.0 release of oqs-provider and is fully tested to be used in conjunction with the main branch of liboqs. This release is guaranteed to be in sync with v0.8.0 of liboqs.

This release also makes available for the first time ready-to-run binaries for Windows (.dll) and MacOS (.dylib) compiled for x64 CPUs. Activation and use is documented in USAGE.md.

Additional new feature highlights

• Support for Windows platform
• Added brew support for MacOS
• Documentation restructured supporting different platforms
• Enable statically linkable oqsprovider

What's Changed (full commit list)

• trigger oqs-demos build when pushing to main by @baentsch in #182
• Enable building on platforms without _Atomic support by @baentsch in #183
• Standalone ctest by @baentsch in #184
• Convert oqs-kem-info.md code points to hex by @WillChilds-Klein in #188
• Documentation update by @baentsch in #187
• Add full Windows support by @baentsch in #192
• Improve installation by @baentsch in #196
• document specs [skip ci] by @baentsch in #190
• Add .DS_Store (macOS), .vscode (visual studio code), and .idea (Jetbr… by @planetf1 in #200
• first test for macos CI by @baentsch in #198
• Add brew to preinstall test matrix by @baentsch in #205
• General documentation overhaul by @baentsch in #204
• change TLS demo to use QSC alg [skip ci] by @baentsch in #208
• Build a module instead of a shared library. by @thb-sb in #207
• explain groups in USAGE [skip ci] by @baentsch in #214
• ensure OpenSSL3 is linked to liboqs during script build by @baentsch in #212
• Remove trailing whitespaces in generated code. by @thb-sb in #215
• Fix a minor bug in the runtests.sh. by @thb-sb in #216
• Specify version 3.1 while installing OpenSSL using brew. by @thb-sb in #217
• Allow the user to build oqs-provider as a static library. by @thb-sb in #201
• Add a line to RELEASE.md to highlight the support for static libraries by @thb-sb in #220
• Enhance github bug report template by @baentsch in #219
• Use OpenSSL 3 if available to build liboqs on CircleCI/macOS. by @thb-sb in #222
• Fix a bug in the CMake script. by @thb-sb in #221

New Contributors

• @WillChilds-Klein made their first contribution in #188
• @planetf1 made their first contribution in #200
• @thb-sb made their first contribution in #207

Full Changelog: 0.5.0...0.5.1