The history, engineering milestones, and global impact of the Open Quantum Safe project in benchmarking and prototyping post-quantum cryptography.
Founded in 2016 by academic researchers and industry partners, the Open Quantum Safe project aimed to provide a shared, open-source C library (liboqs) containing clean, benchmarkable reference implementations of all candidate algorithms participating in the NIST post-quantum standardization process.
How the OQS project engineered experimental forks of OpenSSL, BoringSSL, OpenSSH, and NGINX, enabling the global networking community to test hybrid TLS handshakes and measure packet fragmentation on live networks years before final standards were published.
Lessons learned from a decade of open, cross-institutional cryptographic engineering, and how the global developer community continues to maintain high-assurance post-quantum software.