v1.0.0-alpha

mlkem-native v1.0.0-alpha

About

mlkem-native is a C90 implementation of ML-KEM targeting PC, mobile and server platforms. It is a fork of the ML-KEM reference implementation.

mlkem-native aims to be fast, secure, and easy to use: It provides native code backends in C, AArch64 and x86_64, offering state-of-the-art performance on most Arm, Intel and AMD platforms. The C code in mlkem/* is verified using CBMC to be free of undefined behavior. In particular, there are no out of bounds accesses, nor integer overflows during optimized modular arithmetic.

Release notes

This is first official release of mlkem-native, a C90 implementation of ML-KEM targeting PC, mobile and server platforms. This alpha release of mlkem-native features complete backends in C, AArch64 and x86_64, offering state-of-the-art performance on most Arm, Intel and AMD platforms.

With this alpha release we intend to spark experiments on integrations of mlkem-native in other software. We appreciate any feedback on how to improve and extend mlkem-native in the future. Please open an issue on https://github.com/pq-code-package/mlkem-native. While we continue on improving and extending mlkem-native, we expect that the majority of the code is stable. In particular, the core external APIs are stable; we will potentially expose additional functions (e.g., operating on expanded secret keys) in the future.