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| Algorithm | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
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| BIKE |
Zip File (77MB)
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Nicolas Aragon Paulo Barreto Slim Bettaieb Loic Bidoux Olivier Blazy Jean-Christophe Deneuville Phillipe Gaborit Shay Gueron Tim Guneysu Carlos Aguilar Melchor Rafael Misoczki Edoardo Persichetti Nicolas Sendrier Jean-Pierre Tillich Gilles Zemor Valentin Vasseur |
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| Classic McEliece | Daniel J. Bernstein Tung Chou Tanja Lange Ingo von Maurich Rafael Misoczki Ruben Niederhagen Edoardo Persichetti Christiane Peters Peter Schwabe Nicolas Sendrier Jakub Szefer Wen Wang |
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| CRYSTALS-KYBER |
Zip File (6MB) Website |
Peter Schwabe |
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| FrodoKEM |
Zip File (31MB) Website |
Michael Naehrig Erdem Alkim Joppe Bos Leo Ducas Karen Easterbrook Brian LaMacchia Patrick Longa Ilya Mironov Valeria Nikolaenko Christopher Peikert Ananth Raghunathan Douglas Stebila |
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| HQC |
Zip File (30MB) |
Carlos Aguilar Melchor |
Submit Comment |
| LAC |
Zip File (12MB) |
Xianhui Lu Yamin Liu Dingding Jia Haiyang Xue Jingnan He Zhenfei Zhang Zhe Liu Hao Yang Bao Li Kunpeng Wang |
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| LEDAcrypt (merger of LEDAkem and LEDApkc) |
Zip File (2MB) |
Marco Baldi Alessandro Barenghi Franco Chiaraluce Gerardo Pelosi Paolo Santini |
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| NewHope |
Zip File (4MB) |
Thomas Poppelmann Erdem Alkim Roberto Avanzi Joppe Bos Leo Ducas Antonio de la Piedra Peter Schwabe Douglas Stebila Martin R. Albrecht |
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| NTRU (merger of NTRUEncrypt and NTRU-HRSS-KEM) |
Zip File (4MB) |
Cong Chen |
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| NTRU Prime |
Zip File (3MB) Website |
Daniel J. Bernstein Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup Tanja Lange Christine van Vredendaal |
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| NTS-KEM |
Zip File (2MB)
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Martin Albrecht Carlos Cid Kenneth G. Paterson Cen Jung Tjhai Martin Tomlinson |
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| ROLLO (merger of LAKE, LOCKER and Ouroboros-R) |
Zip File (8MB) |
Nicolas Aragon |
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| Round5 (merger of HILA5 and Round2) |
Zip File (50MB) |
Oscar Garcia-Morchon |
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| RQC |
Zip File (6MB) |
Carlos Aguilar Melchor Nicolas Aragon Slim Bettaieb Loic Bidoux Olivier Blazy Jean-Christophe Deneuville Phillippe Gaborit Gilles Zemor Alain Couvreur Adrien Hauteville |
Submit Comment |
| SABER |
Zip File (2MB) |
Jan-Pieter D'Anvers Angshuman Karmakar Sujoy Sinha Roy Frederik Vercauteren |
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| SIKE |
Zip File (53MB) |
David Jao Reza Azarderakhsh Matthew Campagna Craig Costello Luca De Feo Basil Hess Amir Jalali |
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| Three Bears |
Zip File (3MB) |
Mike Hamburg |
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| Algorithm | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRYSTALS-DILITHIUM |
Zip File (11MB) |
Vadim Lyubashevsky Leo Ducas Eike Kiltz Tancrede Lepoint Peter Schwabe Gregor Seiler Damien Stehle |
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| FALCON |
Zip File (5MB) |
Thomas Prest Pierre-Alain Fouque Jeffrey Hoffstein Paul Kirchner Vadim Lyubashevsky Thomas Pornin Thomas Ricosset Gregor Seiler William Whyte Zhenfei Zhang |
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| GeMSS | A. Casanova J.-C. Faugere G. Macario-Rat J. Patarin L. Perret J. Ryckeghem |
Submit Comment |
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| LUOV |
Zip File (104MB) |
Ward Beullens Bart Preneel Alan Szepieniec Frederik Vercauteren |
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| MQDSS |
Zip File (10MB) |
Simona Samardjiska Ming-Shing Chen Andreas Hulsing Joost Rijneveld Peter Schwabe |
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| Picnic |
Zip File (25MB) |
Greg Zaverucha Melissa Chase David Derler Steven Goldfeder Claudio Orlandi Sebastian Ramacher Christian Rechberger Daniel Slamanig Jonathan Katz Xiao Wang Vladmir Kolesnikov Daniel Kales |
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| qTESLA |
Zip File (65MB) |
Nina Bindel Sedat Akleylek Erdem Alkim Paulo S. L. M. Barreto Johannes Buchmann Edward Eaton Gus Gutoski Juliane Kramer Patrick Longa Harun Polat Jefferson E. Ricardini Gustavo Zanon |
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| Rainbow | Zip File (32MB) KAT Files (Zip FIles)
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Jintai Ding Ming-Shing Chen Albrecht Petzoldt Dieter Schmidt Bo-Yin Yang |
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| SPHINCS+ | Zip File (127MB) IP Statements Website |
Andreas Hulsing Daniel J. Bernstein Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Scott Fluhrer Stefan-Lukas Gazdag Panos Kampanakis Stefan Kolbl Tanja Lange Martin M Lauridsen Florian Mendel Ruben Niederhagen Christian Rechberger Joost Rijneveld Peter Schwabe Jean-Philippe Aumasson |
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