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class="main-content-wrap"> <div id="main-content" class="main-content"> <main> <h1 id="research"> <a href="#research" class="anchor-heading" aria-labelledby="research"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a> Research </h1> <p>OQS has been used to support research in the following papers and technical standards from OQS team members and others.</p> <h2 id="research-from-oqs-team-members"> <a href="#research-from-oqs-team-members" class="anchor-heading" aria-labelledby="research-from-oqs-team-members"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a> Research from OQS team members </h2> <h3 id="research-papers"> <a href="#research-papers" class="anchor-heading" aria-labelledby="research-papers"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a> Research papers </h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/779"><strong>More efficient post-quantum KEMTLS with pre-distributed public keys</strong></a>, by Peter Schwabe, Douglas Stebila, and Thom Wiggers. <em>ESORICS 2021</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06571"><strong>PQFabric: A permissioned blockchain secure from both classical and quantum attacks</strong></a>, by Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcomb, Michele Mosca, and Geovandro C. C. F. Pereira.</li> <li><a href="https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/research/papers/CCS-SchSteWig20/"><strong>Post-quantum TLS without handshake signatures</strong></a>, by Peter Schwabe, Douglas Stebila, and Thom Wiggers. <em>ACM CCS 2020</em>.</li> <li><a href="PQCrypto-PaqSteTam20"><strong>Benchmarking post-quantum cryptography in TLS</strong></a>, by Christian Paquin, Douglas Stebila, and Goutam Tamvada. <em>PQCrypto 2020</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/research/papers/NISTPQC-CroPaqSte19/"><strong>Prototyping post-quantum and hybrid key exchange and authentication in TLS and SSH</strong></a>, by Eric Crockett, Christian Paquin, and Douglas Stebila. <em>NIST 2nd Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Conference</em>, August, 2019.</li> <li><a href="https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/research/papers/SAC-SteMos16/"><strong>Post-quantum key exchange for the Internet and the Open Quantum Safe project</strong></a>, by Douglas Stebila and Michele Mosca. <em>Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2016</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/research/papers/CCS-BCDMNNRS16/"><strong>Frodo: Take off the ring! Practical, quantum-secure key exchange from LWE</strong></a>, by Joppe Bos, Craig Costello, Léo Ducas, Ilya Mironov, Michael Naehrig, Valeria Nikolaenko, Ananth Raghunathan, and Douglas Stebila. <em>ACM CCS 2016</em>.</li> </ul> <h3 id="proposed-standards"> <a href="#proposed-standards" class="anchor-heading" aria-labelledby="proposed-standards"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a> Proposed standards </h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/research/papers/draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design/"><strong>Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3</strong></a>, by Douglas Stebila, Scott Fluhrer, and Shay Gueron. <em>IETF Internet-Draft</em>, 2020.</li> <li><a href="draft-kampanakis-curdle-pq-ssh"><strong>Post-quantum public key algorithms for the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol</strong></a>, by Panos Kampanakis, Douglas Stebila, Markus Friedl, Torben Hansen, and Dimitrios Sikeridis. <em>IETF Internet-Draft</em>, 2020.</li> </ul> <h2 id="other-research-using-oqs-tools"> <a href="#other-research-using-oqs-tools" class="anchor-heading" aria-labelledby="other-research-using-oqs-tools"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a> Other research using OQS tools </h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3624354.3630585"><strong>The Performance of Post-Quantum TLS 1.3</strong></a>, by Markus Sosnowski, Florian Wiedner, Eric Hauser, Lion Steger, Dimitrios Schoinianakis, Sebastian Gallenmüller, and Georg Carle. <em>CoNEXT 2023</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1539"><strong>ELCA: Introducing Enterprise-level Cryptographic Agility for a Post-Quantum Era</strong></a>, by Dimitrios Sikeridis, David Ott, Sean Huntley, Shivali Sharma, Vasantha Kumar Dhanasekar, Megha Bansal, Akhilesh Kumar, Anwitha U N, Daniel Beveridge, Sairam Veeraswamy. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive*, 2023.</li> <li><a href="https://we.tl/t-kB5ehIdV9X"><strong>Migrating Nginx Web Servers to Quantum-Safe TLS</strong></a>, by Ibrahim Mohammad and Helene Burghoff. Master’s thesis, IT-University of Copenhagen, 2021.</li> <li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386367.3431305"><strong>Assessing the overhead of post-quantum cryptography in TLS 1.3 and SSH</strong></a>, by Dimitrios Sikeridis, Panos Kampanakis, and Michael Devetsikiotis. <em>CoNEXT 2020</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/071"><strong>Post-Quantum Authentication in TLS 1.3: A Performance Study</strong></a>, by Dimitrios Sikeridis, Panos Kampanakis, and Michael Devetsikiotis. <em>NDSS 2020</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1277"><strong>Towards Quantum-Safe VPNs and Internet</strong></a>, by Maran van Heesch, Niels van Adrichem, Thomas Attema, and Thijs Veugen. <em>IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive</em>, 2019.</li> <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1276"><strong>Two PQ Signature Use-cases: Non-issues, challenges and potential solutions</strong></a>, by Panos Kampanakis and Dimitrios Sikeridis. <em>7th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Workshop 2019</em>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="citing-oqs"> <a href="#citing-oqs" class="anchor-heading" aria-labelledby="citing-oqs"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a> Citing OQS </h2> <p>If you make use of liboqs and would like to cite it in an academic paper, we suggest the following:</p> <blockquote> Douglas Stebila, Michele Mosca. 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