News and History
History
The Open Quantum Safe project was founded as a research project by Michele Mosca and Douglas Stsebila in 2014, and has grown with the help of many contributors and sponsors.
In 2024, the Open Quantum Safe project joined the Linux Foundation as one of the launch projects of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance.
News posts
Announcements (2023–present)
See the front page.
Announcements (2021–2022)
- August 21, 2022: Release of liboqs version 0.7.2
- January 25, 2022: First release of OQS-libssh
- January 13, 2022: Year in review 2021
- January 6, 2022: Release of OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1 snapshot 2022-01, OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2022-01, OQS-OpenSSH snapshot 2022-01, liboqs-cpp 0.7.1, liboqs-go 0.7.1, liboqs-python 0.7.1, and oqs-provider 0.3.0
- December 31, 2021: VeriSign Inc. sponsors Open Quantum Safe
- December 16, 2021: Release of liboqs version 0.7.1
- November 16, 2021: Debian adds liboqs packages to unstable branch
- November 1, 2021: Amazon Web Services sponsors Open Quantum Safe
- October, 2021: NLnet NGI Assure fund sponsors oqs-provider
- August 11, 2021: Release of liboqs version 0.7.0, OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1 snapshot 2021-08, OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2021-08, and OQS-OpenSSH snapshot 2021-08
- June 8, 2021: Release of liboqs version 0.6.0
- April 2021: News update
- March 26, 2021: Release of OQS-OpenSSL 1.1.1 snapshot 2021-03
- March 26, 2021: Release of OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2021-03
- March 11, 2021: Unitary Fund sponsors Open Quantum Safe
- March 10, 2021: Release of liboqs version 0.5.0