ML-DSA-65 verification failure?

[mcarrickscott]

openssl genpkey -provider=oqsprovider -provider=default -algorithm mldsa65 -out mldsa65.key

openssl pkey -provider=oqsprovider -provider=default -in mldsa65.key -noout -pubout -text_pub > t.txt sed '1,2d' t.txt | tr -d ': ' |tr -d '\n' > PUB

openssl pkeyutl -provider=oqsprovider -provider=default -in hello.txt -inkey mldsa65_CA.key -sign -out sign.out hexdump -ve '1/1 "%02x"' sign.out > SIG

where hello.txt contains "hello world" - 6865 6c6c 6f20 776f 726c 640a Copy contents of PUB and SIG into python implementation from https://github.com/GiacomoPope/dilithium-py

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from dilithium_py.ml_dsa import ML_DSA_65

pub_string="PUB" sig_string="SIG"

pub=bytes.fromhex(pub_string); sig=bytes.fromhex(sig_string);

print("PUB len=",len(pub)) print("SIG len=",len(sig))

print(ML_DSA_65.verify(pub, b"hello world\n", sig))

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Verification fails. Why?

[baentsch]

Verification fails. Why?

That's not surprising as final MLDSA is not yet integrated (see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/issues/1891).

[mcarrickscott]

Sigh.. So why call it MLDSA if its not...

[baentsch]

Sigh.. So why call it MLDSA if its not...

Point taken. My fault. I assumed we'd be able to do all in one go but didn't.