| name: HQC |
| type: kem |
| principal-submitters: |
| - Carlos Aguilar Melchor |
| - Nicolas Aragon |
| - Slim Bettaieb |
| - Loïc Bidoux |
| - Olivier Blazy |
| - Jurjen Bos |
| - Jean-Christophe Deneuville |
| - Arnaud Dion |
| - Philippe Gaborit |
| - Jérôme Lacan |
| - Edoardo Persichetti |
| - Jean-Marc Robert |
| - Pascal Véron |
| - Gilles Zémor |
| crypto-assumption: Syndrome decoding of structure codes (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic) |
| website: https://pqc-hqc.org/ |
| nist-round: 4 |
| spec-version: 2023-04-30 |
| upstream-ancestors: |
| - https://github.com/SWilson4/package-pqclean/tree/8db1b24b/hqc |
| - submission 2023-04-30 at https://pqc-hqc.org/implementation.html |
| parameter-sets: |
| - name: HQC-128 |
| claimed-nist-level: 1 |
| claimed-security: IND-CCA2 |
| length-public-key: 2249 |
| length-ciphertext: 4433 |
| length-secret-key: 2305 |
| length-shared-secret: 64 |
| implementations-switch-on-runtime-cpu-features: true |
| implementations: |
| - upstream-id: clean |
| supported-platforms: all |
| common-crypto: |
| - SHA3: liboqs |
| no-secret-dependent-branching-claimed: true |
| no-secret-dependent-branching-checked-by-valgrind: true |
| large-stack-usage: false |
| upstream: primary-upstream |
| - name: HQC-192 |
| claimed-nist-level: 3 |
| claimed-security: IND-CCA2 |
| length-ciphertext: 8978 |
| length-public-key: 4522 |
| length-secret-key: 4586 |
| length-shared-secret: 64 |
| implementations-switch-on-runtime-cpu-features: true |
| implementations: |
| - upstream-id: clean |
| supported-platforms: all |
| common-crypto: |
| - SHA3: liboqs |
| no-secret-dependent-branching-claimed: true |
| no-secret-dependent-branching-checked-by-valgrind: true |
| large-stack-usage: false |
| upstream: primary-upstream |
| - name: HQC-256 |
| claimed-nist-level: 5 |
| claimed-security: IND-CCA2 |
| length-ciphertext: 14421 |
| length-public-key: 7245 |
| length-secret-key: 7317 |
| length-shared-secret: 64 |
| implementations-switch-on-runtime-cpu-features: true |
| implementations: |
| - upstream-id: clean |
| supported-platforms: all |
| common-crypto: |
| - SHA3: liboqs |
| no-secret-dependent-branching-claimed: true |
| no-secret-dependent-branching-checked-by-valgrind: true |
| large-stack-usage: false |
| upstream: primary-upstream |
| primary-upstream: |
| spdx-license-identifier: Public domain |
| source: https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean/commit/8e221ae797b229858a0b0d784577a8cb149d5789 |
