[PATCH] Add NTRUEncrypt public key encryption algorithm

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Mon Sep 21 09:22:13 CEST 2015


Christian Grothoff <grothoff at gnunet.org> writes:

>    So we're actually strongly considering NTRU (and other PQ-schemes,
>    but NTRU so far seems very good on the potential security
>    improvement vs. performance loss/complexity front) as an
>    additional (likely for a while optional) handshake within
>    GNUnet (which so far uses primarily libgcrypt for
>    crypto-primitives) for the future. No code yet, but plenty of
>    thinking.

You want to look at XMSS, SPHINCS and some of the other modern
PQ-schemes:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-xmss-hash-based-signatures-01
http://sphincs.cr.yp.to/

/Simon
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