Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms

Microsoft is updating SymCrypt, its core cryptographic library, with new quantum-secure algorithms. Microsofts details are here. From a news article: The first new algorithm Microsoft added to SymCrypt is called ML-KEM. Previously known as CRYSTALS-Kyber, ML-KEM is one of three post-quantum...

Let’s All Agree to Use Seeds as ML-KEM Keys

Last week, NIST published the final version of the ML-KEM1 specification, FIPS 203. One change from the draft is that the final document explicitly allows storing the private decapsulation key as a seed. This is a plea to the cryptography engineering community: let’s all agree to only use seeds a...

CVE-2024-36405

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A control-flow timing lean has been identified in the reference implementation of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1, and other...

CVE-2024-36405

CVE-2024-36405 affects the liboqs reference Kyber KEM implementation. A control-flow timing leak arises when the Kyber KEM is compiled with Clang 15–18 under certain options (including -Os and -O1), enabling a local attacker to measure decapsulation timings and recover the entire ML-KEM 512 secre...

CVE-2024-36405 Control-flow timing leak in Kyber reference implementation when compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1 and other options

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A control-flow timing lean has been identified in the reference implementation of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1, and other...

CVE-2024-36405

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CVE-2024-36405 Control-flow timing leak in Kyber reference implementation when compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1 and other options

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A control-flow timing lean has been identified in the reference implementation of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1, and other...

CVE-2024-36405 Control-flow timing leak in Kyber reference implementation when compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1 and other options

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A control-flow timing lean has been identified in the reference implementation of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang 15-18 for -Os, -O1, and other...

CVE-2024-37880

The Kyber reference implementation before 9b8d306, when compiled by LLVM Clang through 18.x with some common optimization options, has a timing side channel that allows attackers to recover an ML-KEM 512 secret key in minutes. This occurs because polyfrommsg in poly.c does not prevent Clang from...

PT-2024-4342 · Liboqs +1 · Liboqs +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: liboqs versions prior to 0.10.1 Description: A control-flow timing issue has been identified in the reference implementation of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism in liboqs, a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations ...

CVE-2024-37880

The CVE affects the Kyber reference implementation prior to 9b8d306. The vulnerability is a timing side channel where poly_frommsg in poly.c can yield a vulnerable secret-dependent branch when compiled with LLVM Clang (through 18.x) with common optimizations, enabling attackers to recover an ML-K...

CVE-2024-37880

The Kyber reference implementation before 9b8d306, when compiled by LLVM Clang through 18.x with some common optimization options, has a timing side channel that allows attackers to recover an ML-KEM 512 secret key in minutes. This occurs because polyfrommsg in poly.c does not prevent Clang from...

Post-quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem

filippo.io/mlkem768 is a pure-Go implementation of ML-KEM-768 optimized for correctness and readability. ML-KEM formerly known as Kyber, renamed because we can't have nice things is a post-quantum key exchange mechanism in the process of being standardized by NIST and adopted by most of the...

RUSTSEC-2023-0079 KyberSlash: division timings depending on secrets

Various Kyber software libraries in various environments leak secret information into timing, specifically because these libraries include a line of code that divides a secret numerator by a public denominator, the number of CPU cycles for division in various environments varies depending on the...

KyberSlash: division timings depending on secrets

Various Kyber software libraries in various environments leak secret information into timing, specifically because these libraries include a line of code that divides a secret numerator by a public denominator, the number of CPU cycles for division in various environments varies depending on the...

Enough Polynomials and Linear Algebra to Implement Kyber

I was once talking with a mathematician and trying to explain elliptic curve cryptography. Eventually, something clicked and they went "oh, that! I think there was a chapter about it in the book. You made a whole field out of it?" Yes, in cryptography we end up focusing on a very narrow slice of...

KEMs and Post-Quantum age

Theyre here! NIST selected a first batch of post-quantum cryptographic key exchange and signature algorithms. The report is a nice read that explains a lot of the goals, candidates, selections, and rationales. I recommend Sections 2, 3.3, and 4.1. For key exchange, NIST selected only...