ML-KEM·Key encapsulation·NIST level 3
ML-KEM-768
ML-KEM (FIPS 203) is a lattice-based key encapsulation mechanism, standardized by NIST in August 2024. It replaces RSA and elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman for establishing shared secrets in a post-quantum world.
Latest run2026-07-07 09:32 UTC
commitbfd529d- CPU
- Xeon Platinum 8259CL @ 2.50GHz
- Instance
- t3.mediumburstable
- OS / Kernel
- 24.04.4 LTS
- liboqs
- 0.15.0
- Wall clock
- 49m 51s
- CPU steal
- 0.83%
Parameters
- Family
- ML-KEM
- Parameter set
- 768
- Public key
- 1.16 KB
- Private key
- 2.34 KB
- Ciphertext
- 1.06 KB
- Iterations / op
- 1,000
- liboqs key
- ML-KEM-768
keygenGenerate a fresh key pair.
54 of 54 runs
- Mean
- 18.7 µs
- Median
- 18.2 µs
- p95
- 19.0 µs
- p99
- 27.5 µs
- Stdev
- 3.5 µs
- Min
- 18.0 µs
- Ops/sec
- 53,500
Mean over time
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encapEncapsulate: produce a shared secret and ciphertext under the recipient's public key.
54 of 54 runs
- Mean
- 22.1 µs
- Median
- 20.1 µs
- p95
- 33.3 µs
- p99
- 44.3 µs
- Stdev
- 6.3 µs
- Min
- 19.8 µs
- Ops/sec
- 45,205
Mean over time
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decapDecapsulate: recover the shared secret from the ciphertext using the private key.
54 of 54 runs
- Mean
- 22.4 µs
- Median
- 21.1 µs
- p95
- 30.0 µs
- p99
- 41.4 µs
- Stdev
- 5.3 µs
- Min
- 20.9 µs
- Ops/sec
- 44,577
Mean over time
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