From e1fd60c72dc3e362c032e39bb9076d26d03d910e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Douglas Stebila Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 14:28:21 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] RC1 for 2021-08 snapshot release --- RELEASE.md | 20 ++++++-------------- version.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md index 82fdb375d5db..b3fc4f1a0e2e 100644 --- a/RELEASE.md +++ b/RELEASE.md @@ -1,9 +1,5 @@ -OQS-OpenSSH snapshot 2020-08 -============================ - -** TO-DO: update for 8.x branch (this is the 7.9 README) ** - -*** TODO: to update for next release *** +OQS-OpenSSH snapshot 2021-08-rc1 +================================ About ----- @@ -17,16 +13,12 @@ The **Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project** has the goal of developing and prototypi Release notes ============= -This is the 2020-08 snapshot release of OQS-OpenSSH, released on August 11, 2020. Its release page on GitHub is https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh/releases/tag/OQS-OpenSSH-snapshot-2020-08. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.4.0. +This is release candidate 1 of the 2021-08 snapshot release of OQS-OpenSSH, released on August 8, 2021. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.0. What's New ---------- -This is the fourth snapshot release of the OQS fork of OpenSSH. It is based on OpenSSH 8.4 portable 1. - -- Uses the updated NIST Round 2 submissions added to liboqs 0.4.0, as described in the [liboqs release notes](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/blob/master/RELEASE.md). - -Deprecations ------------- +This is the fifth snapshot release of the OQS fork of OpenSSH. It is based on OpenSSH 8.6 portable 1. -As a result of NIST's announcement of Round 3 of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project, this is the last release of OQS-OpenSSH that contain algorithms from Round 2 that are not Round 3 finalists or alternate candidates. Those algorithms will be removed in the next release. The algorithms in question are: NewHope, ThreeBears, MQDSS, and qTesla. These algorithms are considered deprecated within OQS-OpenSSH will receive no updates after this release. +- This is a rewrite of prior versions of OQS-OpenSSH, performed by Goutam Tamvada, Christian Paquin, and Michael Baentsch. +- Uses the updated NIST Round 3 submissions added to liboqs 0.7.0, as described in the [liboqs release notes](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/blob/main/RELEASE.md). diff --git a/version.h b/version.h index bb3892c2b6cf..72c391f50cef 100644 --- a/version.h +++ b/version.h @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* $OpenBSD: version.h,v 1.90 2021/04/16 03:42:00 djm Exp $ */ -#define SSH_VERSION "OQS-OpenSSH_8.6-2021-06_" +#define SSH_VERSION "OQS-OpenSSH_8.6-2021-08-rc1_" #define SSH_PORTABLE "p1" #define SSH_RELEASE SSH_VERSION SSH_PORTABLE