Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms
On 2025-07-25 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> writes:
[...]
> > * I doubt that a multi-year old version of liboqs (which is what you'd
> > have in stable in a not too distant future) would be useful for
> > experiments and testing. liboqs is pretty fast moving. You would want
> > bleeding edge for experimenting.
> My primary use-case for liboqs in stable is to setup interop testing
> between different PQ libraries and help development of PQ libraries.
> Having some OLD and stable release of liboqs widely available is what I
> would prefer. I want to test that some other PQ crypto libraries are
> able to interop with some old known-to-produce-correct-results liboqs.
> So there is no need for this liboqs to be able to protect sensitive
> data. It just have to produce something. Which seems to match what the
> liboqs maintainers says it is good for.
Hello,
If there is a stable release of liboqs this indeed makes sense.
cu Andreas
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