cloudflare / cloudflare/circl

Implement MAYO

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Description

[MAYO](https://pqmayo.org/about/) is a practical UOV variant with small key and signature sizes. It has also been submitted to Round 1 of NIST's Additional PQC Signatures.

We have finished a Go implementation, and plan to incorporate it into CIRCL.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Review the MAYO overview linked in the issue and the completed Go implementation mentioned there before examining how cryptographic schemes are incorporated into CIRCL. Done means integrating MAYO into CIRCL with the expected small key and signature sizes, with validation left to the project’s existing checks.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cryptography
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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