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|               *     POST-QUANTUM CRYPTO STANDARDIZATION     *               |
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|        Proposal: RQC                                                        |
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|        Submitters (by alphabetical order):                                  |
|                  - Carlos AGUILAR MELCHOR                                   |
|                  - Nicolas ARAGON                                           |
|                  - Slim BETTAIEB                                            |
|                  - Loïc BIDOUX                                              |
|                  - Olivier BLAZY                                            |
|                  - Alain COUVREUR                                           |
| [backup contact] - Jean-Christophe DENEUVILLE                               |
| [main contact]   - Philippe GABORIT                                         |
|                  - Adrien HAUTEVILLE                                        |
|                  - Gilles ZÉMOR                                             |
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|        Inventors: Same as submitters                                        |
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|        Developers: Same as submitters                                       |
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|        Owners: Same as submitters                                           |
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This archive is a proposal in response to NIST's call for proposal for standar-
dization of quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms.

RQC provides POST-QUANTUM CODE-BASED PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION and targets NIST's 
security levels 1, 3, and 5.

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This archive is organized as follows:

- KATs: Known Answer Test values and verbose outputs for each parameter set
- Reference_Implementation: Reference implementation for each parameter set
- Optimized_Implementation: Optimized implementation for each parameter set
- Additional_Implementation: Additional implementation for each parameter set
- Supporting_Documentation: Supporting documentation and tweaks for round 2

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The authors did their best to make this archive complete and proper.
    
