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RUSTSEC-2022-0047

Post-Quantum Signature scheme Rainbow level I parametersets broken

Reported
Issued
Package
oqs (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Categories
Details
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/KFgw5_qCXiI?pli=1
Patched
  • >=0.7.2

Description

Ward Beullens found a practical key-recovery attack against Rainbow. The level I parametersets are removed from liboqs starting from version 0.7.2. Find the scientific details in Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop.

This means all the oqs::sig::Algorithm::RainbowI* variants are insecure.