Post-Quantum Encryption Management System

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Project Goals

The goals of this project are simple in theory, yet difficult in practice: To provide an all-inclusive management system for data security based around the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards, whether it be for entries in a database or for files themselves.

To do this, we use old ideas, but with a new twist. For example, the old idea is that one should use a key-pair (public key, private key) to "lock" the encryption so that one needs the keys in order to decrypt the data.

• Key-pair generation: Rather than using the classical RSA or Diffie-Hellman for key generation, we will instead use Kyber.
• Key storage: Storage of the keys should use TPM2.0 modules or failing that, either Windows DPAPI, Linux LibSecret, or Apple Keychain.
• Encryption/Decryption: Encryption of the data will use RLWE, Ring Learning with Errors.

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Windows Installation (via WSL2)

Prerequisites

This project requires the NVIDIA CUDA Tookkit and WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0) to run Linux-based packages and to build tpm2-tss.

Steps to Install CUDA Toolkit

1. Visit NVIDIA's website at: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

2. Download and install the CUDA Toolkit for your system (Linux or Windows)

Steps to Install tpm2-tss

1. Launch PowerShell with admin priviledges and install pkgconfiglite using the following:

   choco install pkgconfiglite
   

2. Enable the Universe Repository in WSL

   Open your WSL Ubuntu terminal and run the following command to enable the Universe repository, which is necessary for some of the dependencies:

   sudo add-apt-repository universe
   sudo apt-get update
   

3. Install Required Dependencies

   Install all the required dependencies by running:

   sudo apt-get install autoconf-archive autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gcc libssl-dev libjson-c-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev uuid-dev pkgconf
   

4. Clone the TPM2-TSS Repository

   Clone the tpm2-tss GitHub repository to your local machine:

   git clone https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss.git
   cd tpm2-tss
   

5. Build and Install tpm2-tss

   Run the following commands to build and install tpm2-tss:

   ./bootstrap
   ./configure
   make -j$(nproc)
   sudo make install
   sudo ldconfig

   The sudo ldconfig command refreshes the shared library cache to ensure that your system recognizes the newly installed library.

Notes:

• It's important to emphasize that WSL2 must be installed on Windows before running these commands.