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Open Quantum Safe

Software for prototyping quantum-resistant cryptography

Open Quantum Safe

The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project is an open-source project that aims to support the development and prototyping of quantum-resistant cryptography. OQS is part of the Linux Foundation's Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance.

OQS consists of two main lines of work: liboqs, an open source C library for quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms, and prototype integrations into protocols and applications, including a provider for the widely used OpenSSL library. These tools support research by ourselves and others.

All of our development takes place on our GitHub repositories. We welcome new contributors interested in joining our team. Feel free to begin participating on GitHub or say hello on our Discord server on the #oqs-general channel. We are grateful to the organizations that have supported and continue to support our work, and the academic, industry, public sector, and individual contributors who participate in the project.

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  1. liboqs liboqs Public

    C library for prototyping and experimenting with quantum-resistant cryptography

    C 2.7k 678

  2. oqs-provider oqs-provider Public

    OpenSSL 3 provider containing post-quantum algorithms

    C 441 152

  3. oqs-demos oqs-demos Public

    PARTIALLY SUPPORTED Instructions for enabling the use of quantum-safe cryptography in assorted software using the OQS suite. CONTRIBUTORS WANTED.

    Dockerfile 173 91

  4. tsc tsc Public

    OQS Technical Steering Committee resources

    13 6

Repositories

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  • boringssl Public Forked from google/boringssl

    Fork of BoringSSL that includes prototype quantum-resistant key exchange and authentication in the TLS handshake based on liboqs

    open-quantum-safe/boringssl’s past year of commit activity
    C++ 44 Apache-2.0 885 3 1 Updated Jan 23, 2026
  • liboqs Public

    C library for prototyping and experimenting with quantum-resistant cryptography

    open-quantum-safe/liboqs’s past year of commit activity
    C 2,715 678 88 (16 issues need help) 7 Updated Jan 23, 2026
  • oqs-provider Public

    OpenSSL 3 provider containing post-quantum algorithms

    open-quantum-safe/oqs-provider’s past year of commit activity
    C 441 MIT 152 41 (18 issues need help) 4 Updated Jan 23, 2026
  • tsc Public

    OQS Technical Steering Committee resources

    open-quantum-safe/tsc’s past year of commit activity
    13 CC-BY-4.0 6 8 1 Updated Jan 22, 2026
  • ci-containers Public

    CI images for testing OQS projects.

    open-quantum-safe/ci-containers’s past year of commit activity
    Dockerfile 5 MIT 12 2 0 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • www Public
    open-quantum-safe/www’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 1 7 1 0 Updated Jan 13, 2026
  • oqs-demos Public

    PARTIALLY SUPPORTED Instructions for enabling the use of quantum-safe cryptography in assorted software using the OQS suite. CONTRIBUTORS WANTED.

    open-quantum-safe/oqs-demos’s past year of commit activity
    Dockerfile 173 91 3 1 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • openssh Public Forked from openssh/openssh-portable

    Fork of OpenSSH that includes prototype quantum-resistant key exchange and authentication in SSH based on liboqs.

    open-quantum-safe/openssh’s past year of commit activity
    C 221 2,103 3 0 Updated Jan 6, 2026
  • openssl Public archive Forked from openssl/openssl

    [DEPRECATED — See notice in README.md and switch to OpenSSL 3 OQS Provider] Fork of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that includes prototype quantum-resistant algorithms and ciphersuites based on liboqs

    open-quantum-safe/openssl’s past year of commit activity
    C 309 11,895 0 0 Updated Jan 5, 2026
  • liboqs-python Public

    Python 3 bindings for liboqs

    open-quantum-safe/liboqs-python’s past year of commit activity
    Python 214 MIT 78 11 4 Updated Dec 1, 2025