./security/codecrypt, Post-quantum cryptographic software

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Branch: pkgsrc-2016Q2, Version: 1.7.5, Package name: codecrypt-1.7.5, Maintainer: agc

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

Stream ciphers used: ChaCha20, XSynd stream cipher, RC4 (for initial
simplicity of implementation)

CRHFs used:
+ Cubehash variants were selected for implementation ease, really
clean design, quite good speed and flexibility of parameter choices.
KeyID's are CUBE256 hashes of serialized public key.
+ ripemd128 for small hashes
+ tiger192 is used as an alternative for Cubehash for 192bit hashes
+ There's always a variant with SHA-256, SHA-384 or SHA-512.

Signature algorithms:
+ FMTSeq with many possibilities and combinations of aforementioned CRHFs

Encryption:
MDPC McEliece on quasi-cyclic matrices - decoding is (slightly)
vulnerable to timing attacks.


Required to run:
[devel/gmp]

Master sites:

SHA1: 138242abafee92718d9568b0b4fe15230333bede
RMD160: 343cf4178eb38dda93670b8cad10a4050f9290e8
Filesize: 19976.446 KB

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