Example key encapsulation and decapsulation using liboqs
A copy of this file can be found in the liboqs repository under tests/example_kem.c.
/*
* example_kem.c
*
* Minimal example of a Diffie-Hellman-style post-quantum key encapsulation
* implemented in liboqs.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
*/
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <oqs/oqs.h>
/* Cleaning up memory etc */
void cleanup_stack(uint8_t *secret_key, size_t secret_key_len,
uint8_t *shared_secret_e, uint8_t *shared_secret_d,
size_t shared_secret_len);
void cleanup_heap(uint8_t *secret_key, uint8_t *shared_secret_e,
uint8_t *shared_secret_d, uint8_t *public_key,
uint8_t *ciphertext, OQS_KEM *kem);
/* This function gives an example of the operations performed by both
* the decapsulator and the encapsulator in a single KEM session,
* using only compile-time macros and allocating variables
* statically on the stack, calling a specific algorithm's functions
* directly.
*
* The macros OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_* and the functions
* OQS_KEM_kyber_768_* are only defined if the algorithm
* Kyber-768 was enabled at compile-time which must be
* checked using the OQS_ENABLE_KEM_kyber_768 macro.
*
* <oqs/oqsconfig.h>, which is included in <oqs/oqs.h>, contains macros
* indicating which algorithms were enabled when this instance of liboqs
* was compiled.
*/
static OQS_STATUS example_stack(void) {
#ifndef OQS_ENABLE_KEM_kyber_768 // if Kyber-768 was not enabled at compile-time
printf("[example_stack] OQS_KEM_kyber_768 was not enabled at "
"compile-time.\n");
return OQS_SUCCESS; // nothing done successfully ;-)
#else
uint8_t public_key[OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_public_key];
uint8_t secret_key[OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_secret_key];
uint8_t ciphertext[OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_ciphertext];
uint8_t shared_secret_e[OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_shared_secret];
uint8_t shared_secret_d[OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_shared_secret];
OQS_STATUS rc = OQS_KEM_kyber_768_keypair(public_key, secret_key);
if (rc != OQS_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_KEM_kyber_768_keypair failed!\n");
cleanup_stack(secret_key, OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_secret_key,
shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d,
OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_shared_secret);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
rc = OQS_KEM_kyber_768_encaps(ciphertext, shared_secret_e, public_key);
if (rc != OQS_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_KEM_kyber_768_encaps failed!\n");
cleanup_stack(secret_key, OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_secret_key,
shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d,
OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_shared_secret);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
rc = OQS_KEM_kyber_768_decaps(shared_secret_d, ciphertext, secret_key);
if (rc != OQS_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_KEM_kyber_768_decaps failed!\n");
cleanup_stack(secret_key, OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_secret_key,
shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d,
OQS_KEM_kyber_768_length_shared_secret);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
printf("[example_stack] OQS_KEM_kyber_768 operations completed.\n");
return OQS_SUCCESS; // success!
#endif
}
/* This function gives an example of the operations performed by both
* the decapsulator and the encapsulator in a single KEM session,
* allocating variables dynamically on the heap and calling the generic
* OQS_KEM object.
*
* This does not require the use of compile-time macros to check if the
* algorithm in question was enabled at compile-time; instead, the caller
* must check that the OQS_KEM object returned is not NULL.
*/
static OQS_STATUS example_heap(void) {
OQS_KEM *kem = NULL;
uint8_t *public_key = NULL;
uint8_t *secret_key = NULL;
uint8_t *ciphertext = NULL;
uint8_t *shared_secret_e = NULL;
uint8_t *shared_secret_d = NULL;
kem = OQS_KEM_new(OQS_KEM_alg_kyber_768);
if (kem == NULL) {
printf("[example_heap] OQS_KEM_kyber_768 was not enabled at "
"compile-time.\n");
return OQS_SUCCESS;
}
public_key = OQS_MEM_malloc(kem->length_public_key);
secret_key = OQS_MEM_malloc(kem->length_secret_key);
ciphertext = OQS_MEM_malloc(kem->length_ciphertext);
shared_secret_e = OQS_MEM_malloc(kem->length_shared_secret);
shared_secret_d = OQS_MEM_malloc(kem->length_shared_secret);
if ((public_key == NULL) || (secret_key == NULL) || (ciphertext == NULL) ||
(shared_secret_e == NULL) || (shared_secret_d == NULL)) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_MEM_malloc failed!\n");
cleanup_heap(secret_key, shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d, public_key,
ciphertext, kem);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
OQS_STATUS rc = OQS_KEM_keypair(kem, public_key, secret_key);
if (rc != OQS_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_KEM_keypair failed!\n");
cleanup_heap(secret_key, shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d, public_key,
ciphertext, kem);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
rc = OQS_KEM_encaps(kem, ciphertext, shared_secret_e, public_key);
if (rc != OQS_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_KEM_encaps failed!\n");
cleanup_heap(secret_key, shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d, public_key,
ciphertext, kem);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
rc = OQS_KEM_decaps(kem, shared_secret_d, ciphertext, secret_key);
if (rc != OQS_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: OQS_KEM_decaps failed!\n");
cleanup_heap(secret_key, shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d, public_key,
ciphertext, kem);
return OQS_ERROR;
}
printf("[example_heap] OQS_KEM_kyber_768 operations completed.\n");
cleanup_heap(secret_key, shared_secret_e, shared_secret_d, public_key,
ciphertext, kem);
return OQS_SUCCESS; // success
}
int main(void) {
OQS_init();
if (example_stack() == OQS_SUCCESS && example_heap() == OQS_SUCCESS) {
OQS_destroy();
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
} else {
OQS_destroy();
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
}
void cleanup_stack(uint8_t *secret_key, size_t secret_key_len,
uint8_t *shared_secret_e, uint8_t *shared_secret_d,
size_t shared_secret_len) {
OQS_MEM_cleanse(secret_key, secret_key_len);
OQS_MEM_cleanse(shared_secret_e, shared_secret_len);
OQS_MEM_cleanse(shared_secret_d, shared_secret_len);
}
void cleanup_heap(uint8_t *secret_key, uint8_t *shared_secret_e,
uint8_t *shared_secret_d, uint8_t *public_key,
uint8_t *ciphertext, OQS_KEM *kem) {
if (kem != NULL) {
OQS_MEM_secure_free(secret_key, kem->length_secret_key);
OQS_MEM_secure_free(shared_secret_e, kem->length_shared_secret);
OQS_MEM_secure_free(shared_secret_d, kem->length_shared_secret);
}
OQS_MEM_insecure_free(public_key);
OQS_MEM_insecure_free(ciphertext);
OQS_KEM_free(kem);
}