Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms

From	Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms
Date	2025-07-25 19:20 +0200
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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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Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Hector Oron Martinez <zumbi@debian.org> - 2025-07-22 09:50 +0200
  Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-07-23 06:50 +0200
    Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Hector Oron <zumbi@debian.org> - 2025-07-23 13:10 +0200
      Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-07-23 18:40 +0200
  Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-07-24 00:00 +0200
    Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe  cryptographic algorithms Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 10:40 +0200
      Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe  cryptographic algorithms Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 11:20 +0200
      Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe  cryptographic algorithms Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-07-24 11:40 +0200
    Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-07-24 19:20 +0200
      Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-07-25 10:20 +0200
        Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe  cryptographic algorithms Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-07-25 19:20 +0200
          Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe  cryptographic algorithms Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-07-26 10:00 +0200
  Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 01:20 +0200
  Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 02:50 +0200
  Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 03:40 +0200

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