FALCON-512 Attestation | HICS-PQ | H33

PQ Library Attestations

Dilithium ML-DSA-65 Kyber ML-KEM-768 FALCON-512 SPHINCS+ SLH-DSA BFV FHE CKKS FHE

99/ 100

HICS-PQ Attestation

pqc/falcon/mod.rs + pqc/falcon/params.rs

Last scanned: March 31, 2026 · Auto-updates on release

Correctness 100 / 100

Weight: 40%

✓ 14 / 14 unit tests passing
✓ Falcon-512 and Falcon-1024 sign-verify round-trip
✓ Invalid signature rejection verified
✓ Public key serialization round-trip
✓ Batch signer correctness verified
✓ Hybrid signature (Ed25519 + FALCON) verified

Security 100 / 100

Weight: 30%

✓ NTRU lattice foundation (independent from Dilithium MLWE)
✓ Compact signatures: 690 bytes (vs 3,309 for Dilithium)
✓ Lattice-family diversity in hybrid deployments
✓ Key pool with automatic rotation
✓ Public key hash for identity binding

Performance 98 / 100

Weight: 15%

✓ Falcon-512 sign: ~5ms (Gaussian sampling)
✓ Falcon-512 verify: < 1ms
✓ Signature: 690 bytes max, ~666 avg (compact!)
✓ PK: 897 bytes (smallest PQ signature PK)
✓ 2 security levels: 512, 1024

Standards 100 / 100

Weight: 15%

✓ NIST FIPS 206 (forthcoming) aligned
✓ Falcon-512: NIST Level 1 (128-bit)
✓ Falcon-1024: NIST Level 5 (256-bit)
✓ N=512, Q=12289 (spec parameters)
✓ Pure Rust via pqcrypto-falcon

Parameter Specifications

Parameter	Value
Security Level	NIST Level 1 (Falcon-512)
Public Key Size	897 bytes
Secret Key Size	1,281 bytes
Signature Size	690 bytes max (~666 avg)
Polynomial Degree	512
Modulus (q)	12,289
Foundation	NTRU lattice
Unit Tests	14
Key Advantage	Smallest PQ signatures

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