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🆕 Software Suggestion | codecrypt - Post-quantum cryptography tool #998

Closed merlinnusr closed 5 years ago

merlinnusr commented 5 years ago

Basic Information

Name: codecrypt Category: software/encryption-tools/ URL: https://gitea.blesmrt.net/exa/codecrypt

Description

This is a GnuPG-like unix program for encryption and signing that uses only quantum-computer-resistant algorithms:

McEliece cryptosystem (compact QC-MDPC variant) for encryption
Hash-based Merkle tree algorithm (FMTSeq variant) for digital signatures

Codecrypt is free software. The code is licensed under terms of LGPL3 in a good hope that it will make combinations with other tools easier.

Suggested by Whonix: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/PQCrypto#Software

blacklight447 commented 5 years ago

ehh, knowing how inmature and unsettled post QC crypto is, I would not be comfertable recommending it to users, as they may think its more trustworthy then something like AES or RSA.

blacklight447 commented 5 years ago

Because of the above comment by me and the lack of response, I am closing this issue, if anyone still wants to continue the discussion, they are free to comment below here to open it up again.