strongSwan

h1. NTRU

NTRU is a lattice-based post-quantum encryption algorithm owned by "Security Innovation":https://www.securityinnovation.com/products/encryption-libraries/ntru-cryptography.html. Our implementation of the ntru plugin has been derived from the "ntru-crypto":https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto C source code made available by Security Innovations under the GNU GPLv2 open source license.

NTRU has been standardized by *IEEE Std 1363.1-2008* and *ANSI X9.98-2010*. NTRU parameter sets are defined for security strengths of 112, 128, 192 and 256 bits. The strongSwan ntru plugin uses NTRU encryption as an IKEv1|IKEv2 key exchange algorithm in the following way:

 * The IKE initiator generates a random NTRU public/private key pair for the specified security strength.

 * The IKE initiator sends the NTRU public key in the KEi payload to the IKE responder.

 * The IKE responder generates a random secret s with a size of twice the security strength and encrypts it with the NTRU public key.

 * The IKE responder sends the encrypted secret in the KEr payload to the IKE initiator

 * The IKE initiator decrypts the KEr payload using the NTRU private key and extracts the random secret s.

 * With IKEv2 both initiator and responder use the secret s to compute SKEYSEED = prf(Ni | Nr, s).