Implementation of QC-MDPC Niederreiter public key encryption.
Author: Sebastian R. Verschoor
THIS CODE IS INSECURE. DO NOT USE THIS FOR ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES SECURITY.
A generic implementation of Niederreiter public key encryption using
quasi-cyclic moderate-density parity-check (QC-MDPC) codes. The
implementation applies the KEM/DEM hybrid encryption scheme. The
symmetric primitives are Keccak for hashing, Salsa20 for symmetric
encryption and Poly1305 for message authentication.
TODO:
- Choose symmetric encryption
- Salsa20 or ChaCha20 (should have higher performance)
- Or go with authenticated encryption for ease of implementation
- easy to switch to the winner of CAESAR competition