nist-ref

Copyright (c) 2023 Raccoon Signature Team. See LICENSE.

For information about NIST PQC Signature submission requirements, see the call for proposals and submission file documentation.

Root level directory structure of this repository:

• ref-c: Written in the style of a "portable ANSI C reference implementation" for NIST, and supports NIST API and KAT generation. This code has options for 32-bit CRT NTT arithmetic (default: off) and LFSR vs ASCON masking random (default: lfsr), used for various discussions.
• ref-py: Python implementation, also with NIST KAT testbench.
• doc: Documentation, including doc/raccoon.pdf, the current specification.

Currently we are not delivering an AVX2, Cortex M4, or FPGA code to NIST; those aspects will be just discussed in the delivered document.

Generating KATs

• The C implementation generates the KATs with ./genkats.sh.
• With the C implementation can also obtain benchmarks with ./bench.sh. The standard ./xtest test binary generated by make is also useful.
• The Python implementation takes a some minutes with python3 test_genkat.py since each KAT file contains a set of 100 test vectors (can be modified).

Running sha256sum *.rsp in the C implementation currently gives the following hashes for 100-vector response files generated by both implementations (albeit with Python one can may want to opt for 10 test vectors). See the directory ref-data rsp hashes for 10 vectors, preliminary benchmarks, and additional data.

Raccoon-128-1   039383b9d9b29c5a9cda63cb93666771c7c09791afaadc941341e0df670229e0  PQCsignKAT_14800.rsp
Raccoon-128-2   71586c2fd1ae47f17cb5c44c2b5351ab48531344041a76357ffc695098d2506c  PQCsignKAT_14816.rsp
Raccoon-128-4   ae6e775feaf9d26eac5d10bec3c742fb7ab8f6716ee96a2ce3cf2c3aa23b8ef0  PQCsignKAT_14848.rsp
Raccoon-128-8   ffbd4df642d15da96624e2b8489b5303a97a7f6a5d60416c72108880746394ea  PQCsignKAT_14912.rsp
Raccoon-128-16  579fbaafde26049c4f4993b28568abfb657da76e5cd0c7a83239e37d4cc43325  PQCsignKAT_15040.rsp
Raccoon-128-32  dff454bf03e9c027d70d4443bb394cae3c5af23ed81179889a62bf98a8a916d8  PQCsignKAT_15296.rsp
Raccoon-192-1   bb577467a15ff20d6ac88c3eb7ba3fd6b3a3e7bf8e5bc627890bb027bba8bda5  PQCsignKAT_18840.rsp
Raccoon-192-2   1543992c77e4a3ee08cd93daf1044e2d7816efbb6c572f167e500ee5b6e68d02  PQCsignKAT_18864.rsp
Raccoon-192-4   82f2b834889bacdbcbb48d51f99c15639a235a764714ba858b415fdf546c9dbc  PQCsignKAT_18912.rsp
Raccoon-192-8   b21ecba12cafa88a8337a813e9dac131a50f043f860241f7cd36f8b502233971  PQCsignKAT_19008.rsp
Raccoon-192-16  57e3c6d014c7283806f4cd3d9c83737c6d381202a1649042c499c5c354f7606b  PQCsignKAT_19200.rsp
Raccoon-192-32  49a552559d6a68175996de373232e0863496834c16b4d2772781f0e01469b621  PQCsignKAT_19584.rsp
Raccoon-256-1   031d4976f4c09b90ecec5c535b5ab3bcb020b9cb4f95e17dfdcedb10de1425fc  PQCsignKAT_26016.rsp
Raccoon-256-2   8936afaf3fd6cf5b43716e006977e1c14a2624913bfd23adb850aa141ef2ae91  PQCsignKAT_26048.rsp
Raccoon-256-4   2e3ae8a29435ce8621a98390874fa2193756c87741f02934018650163c57e369  PQCsignKAT_26112.rsp
Raccoon-256-8   893bf614327740610c29781db7973bbfa7069010039bfa9b2ba02a9a675a78ab  PQCsignKAT_26240.rsp
Raccoon-256-16  663ce05beb35184b0012e638ed8c918f945b379a9bd35a97e37141798c320acf  PQCsignKAT_26496.rsp
Raccoon-256-32  594169ee1ddc6238fbbfae0178d0ed8fab9eb0205066fe382f6ff788c775bd58  PQCsignKAT_27008.rsp