HQC

Overview

HQC (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic) is a code-based public key encryption scheme designed to provide security against attacks by both classical and quantum computers. HQC has been submitted to the NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project.

Timeline

2024/10/30 - HQC submission updated
2024/02/23 - HQC submission updated
2023/04/30 - HQC submission updated
2021/06/06 - HQC submission updated
2020/10/01 - HQC updated for the round 3 of the NIST standardization process
2020/07/22 - HQC selected for the round 3 of the NIST standardization process
2020/05/29 - HQC implementation updated
2020/05/04 - HQC implementation updated
2020/04/21 - HQC submission updated
2019/08/24 - HQC presented at the 2nd NIST PQC Conference
2019/08/24 - HQC updated for the 2nd NIST PQC Workshop
2019/04/10 - HQC updated for the round 2 of the NIST standardization process
2019/01/30 - HQC selected for the round 2 of the NIST standardization process
2018/04/13 - HQC presented at the 1st NIST PQC Conference
2017/11/30 - HQC submitted to the NIST standardization process

Submitters (alphabetical order)

Carlos Aguilar Melchor, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse University (FR)
Nicolas Aragon, University of Limoges & DGA (FR)
Slim Bettaieb, Worldline (FR)
Loïc Bidoux, Worldline (FR)
Olivier Blazy, University of Limoges (FR)
Jurjen Bos, Worldline (NL)
Jean-Christophe Deneuville, ENAC, University of Toulouse (FR)
Arnaud Dion, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse University (FR)
Philippe Gaborit, University of Limoges (FR)
Jérôme Lacan, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse University (FR)
Edoardo Persichetti, Florida Atlantic University (US)
Jean-Marc Robert, University of Toulon (FR)
Pascal Véron, University of Toulon (FR)
Gilles Zémor, University of Bordeaux (FR)