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Welcome to the BIKE Website

This website will be used by the BIKE team as its official communication media.

BIKE is a code-based key encapsulation mechanism based on QC-MDPC (Quasi-Cyclic Moderate Density Parity-Check) codes submitted to the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process.

Highlights
04/10/2024 - BIKE is presented at the 5-th NIST PQC Conference (slides).
11/30/2022 - BIKE is presented at the 4-th NIST PQC Conference (slides).
10/10/2022 - BIKE Team discloses v5.1 of spec and implementations.
07/26/2021 - BIKE Team discloses v4.2 of spec and implementations.
06/08/2021 - BIKE is presented at the 3rd NIST PQC Conference (slides).
10/08/2020 - BIKE Team discloses v4.1 of spec and implementations.
05/01/2020 - BIKE Team discloses v4.0 of spec and implementations.
02/07/2020 - BIKE Team discloses v3.2 of spec and implementations.
08/24/2019 - BIKE is presented at the 2nd NIST PQC Conference (slides).
07/01/2019 - BIKE Team discloses v3.1 of spec and implementations.
04/10/2019 - NIST accepts BIKE round 2 as a complete submission.
03/30/2019 - BIKE round 2 is submitted to NIST.
04/13/2018 - BIKE is presented at the 1st NIST PQC Conference (slides).
12/20/2017 - NIST accepts BIKE as a complete submission.
11/30/2017 - BIKE is submitted to the NIST standardization process.

Specification Document

The specification document of BIKE can be found BIKE_Spec.2022.10.10.1.pdf (see all).

Implementation

Known Answer Tests - KAT

The KAT files for BIKE can be found KAT.2022.10.04.1.zip (see all).

Authors

Authors in alphabetical order:

  • Nicolas Aragon
    Univ Rennes, Inria, IRISA, France
  • Paulo L. Barreto
    Univ. of Washington Tacoma, USA
  • Slim Bettaieb
    Worldline, France
  • Loïc Bidoux
    Worldline, France
  • Olivier Blazy
    University of Limoges, France
  • Jean-Christophe Deneuville
    ENAC, University of Toulouse, France
  • Philippe Gaborit
    University of Limoges, France
  • Santosh Ghosh
    Intel, USA
  • Shay Gueron
    Univ. of Haifa, Israel. AWS, USA
  • Tim Güneysu
    Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
    DFKI, Germany
  • Carlos Aguilar Melchor
    University of Toulouse, France
  • Rafael Misoczki
    Meta, USA
  • Edoardo Persichetti
    Florida Atlantic University, USA
  • Jan Richter-Brockmann
    Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
  • Nicolas Sendrier
    INRIA, France
  • Jean-Pierre Tillich
    INRIA, France
  • Valentin Vasseur
    INRIA, France
  • Gilles Zémor
    IMB, University of Bordeaux, France

Acknowledgments

Shay Gueron, Tim Güneysu, Nicolas Sendrier and Jean-Pierre Tillich were supported in part by the Commission of the European Communities through the Horizon 2020 program under project number 645622 (PQCRYPTO). Shay Gueron was also partially supported by NSF-BSF Grant 2018640; the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 3380/19); the BIU Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security, and the Center for Cyber Law and Policy at the University of Haifa, both in conjunction with the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister’s Office. Paulo L. Barreto was partially supported by Intel and FAPESP through the project "Efficient Post-Quantum Cryptography for Building Advanced Security Applications" (grant No. 2015/50520-6). Tim Güneysu was partially supported by Intel (http://www.icri-cars.org). We thank Danilo Gligoroski and Ray Perlner for their comments in the NIST mailing list. We thank Andrew H. Reinders for his comments on the preliminary CCA version of BIKE. The logo presented in the cover page was designed by Szilard Nagy. The reference code was developed by Rafael Misoczki, Nir Drucker, Shay Gueron, Tim Güneysu, Tobias Oder and Slim Bettaieb. The hardware implementation was developed by Jan Richter-Brockmann and Tim Güneysu.

Contact

The BIKE team can be contacted through the following email: team@bikesuite.org.

Postal Address:
    Rafael Misoczki
    Meta Platforms, Inc.
    1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.