Postquantum algorithms in Fedora now and soon
summary
Fedora acts as a playground to land experimental postquantum primitives now: the work wires liboqs into OpenSSL provider API (OpenSSL 3.x) and into NSS via PQClean-based implementations, exercising key-exchange and signature algorithms NIST chose while parameters settle. The immediate blocker is licensing — some algorithm sources use a Creative Commons variant that Fedora cannot ship without exceptions — and there are integration choices (standalone liboqs builds versus reusing OpenSSL implementations) and interoperability tests to finish before distribution.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49Post-quantum cryptography matters
- 3:59NIST standardization challenges
- 6:51Fedora as post-quantum playground
- 9:01LibreSSL and LibreCrypt choice
- 10:29License hurdles
- 12:39Dependencies and integration
- 14:05Fedora roadmap
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