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# HQC
- **Algorithm type**: Key encapsulation mechanism.
- **Main cryptographic assumption**: Syndrome decoding of structure codes (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic).
- **Principal submitters**: Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Nicolas Aragon, Slim Bettaieb, Loïc Bidoux, Olivier Blazy, Jurjen Bos, Jean-Christophe Deneuville, Arnaud Dion, Philippe Gaborit, Jérôme Lacan, Edoardo Persichetti, Jean-Marc Robert, Pascal Véron, Gilles Zémor.
- **Authors' website**: https://pqc-hqc.org/
- **Specification version**: 2023-04-30.
- **Primary Source**<a name="primary-source"></a>:
- **Source**: https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean/commit/1eacfdafc15ddc5d5759d0b85b4cef26627df181
- **Implementation license (SPDX-Identifier)**: Public domain
- **Ancestors of primary source**:
- https://github.com/SWilson4/package-pqclean/tree/8db1b24b/hqc, which takes it from:
- submission 2023-04-30 at https://pqc-hqc.org/implementation.html
## Parameter set summary
| Parameter set | Parameter set alias | Security model | Claimed NIST Level | Public key size (bytes) | Secret key size (bytes) | Ciphertext size (bytes) | Shared secret size (bytes) |
|:---------------:|:----------------------|:-----------------|---------------------:|--------------------------:|--------------------------:|--------------------------:|-----------------------------:|
| HQC-128 | NA | IND-CCA2 | 1 | 2249 | 2305 | 4433 | 64 |
| HQC-192 | NA | IND-CCA2 | 3 | 4522 | 4586 | 8978 | 64 |
| HQC-256 | NA | IND-CCA2 | 5 | 7245 | 7317 | 14421 | 64 |
## HQC-128 implementation characteristics
| Implementation source | Identifier in upstream | Supported architecture(s) | Supported operating system(s) | CPU extension(s) used | No branching-on-secrets claimed? | No branching-on-secrets checked by valgrind? | Large stack usage?‡ |
|:---------------------------------:|:-------------------------|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:----------------------|
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
‡For an explanation of what this denotes, consult the [Explanation of Terms](#explanation-of-terms) section at the end of this file.
## HQC-192 implementation characteristics
| Implementation source | Identifier in upstream | Supported architecture(s) | Supported operating system(s) | CPU extension(s) used | No branching-on-secrets claimed? | No branching-on-secrets checked by valgrind? | Large stack usage? |
|:---------------------------------:|:-------------------------|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:---------------------|
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
## HQC-256 implementation characteristics
| Implementation source | Identifier in upstream | Supported architecture(s) | Supported operating system(s) | CPU extension(s) used | No branching-on-secrets claimed? | No branching-on-secrets checked by valgrind? | Large stack usage? |
|:---------------------------------:|:-------------------------|:----------------------------|:--------------------------------|:------------------------|:-----------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:---------------------|
| [Primary Source](#primary-source) | clean | All | All | None | True | True | False |
Are implementations chosen based on runtime CPU feature detection? **Yes**.
## Explanation of Terms
- **Large Stack Usage**: Implementations identified as having such may cause failures when running in threads or in constrained environments.