Flutter Post-Quantum Cryptography (flutter_pqc)

A state-of-the-art, production-ready Flutter FFI plugin for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).

This package provides a secure, zero-dependency, 100% cross-platform wrapper around the industry standard liboqs C-library. It natively supports ML-KEM (Kyber) and ML-DSA (Dilithium), which are the primary quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms standardized by NIST.

Why flutter_pqc? (Architecture & Performance)

Unlike pure-Dart cryptographic implementations, flutter_pqc is an FFI Wrapper around the industry-standard liboqs C-library (maintained by the Open Quantum Safe project).

This architectural decision provides several massive benefits for production-grade applications:

  • ⚡ Bare-Metal Performance & Hardware Acceleration: Cryptography in pure Dart is often bottlenecked by the Dart Virtual Machine. Because flutter_pqc uses liboqs under the hood, all cryptographic operations execute at native C speeds. The C-library is highly optimized to utilize CPU-specific hardware instructions (such as AVX2/AVX512 on Intel and NEON on ARM/Apple Silicon), making it significantly faster for heavy lattice mathematics and hash functions.
  • 🛡️ Industry-Standard Trust & Security: A lone developer's pure-Dart implementation rarely receives professional third-party security audits, and it is notoriously difficult to write pure-Dart code that is resistant to side-channel (timing) attacks. liboqs is the de-facto global standard. It receives massive funding, continuous cryptanalysis, side-channel attack mitigations, and rigorous audits by the world's leading security experts. It is the exact same engine powering post-quantum cryptography in OpenSSL, AWS, and Cloudflare.
  • 🚀 100% Cross-Platform (Mobile & Desktop): Uses a custom CMake build system integrated into Dart's native_toolchain_c to automatically compile liboqs natively for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux.
  • 📦 Zero Bloat & Maximum Transparency: No pre-compiled .so or .framework binaries are bundled in the repository. The library builds directly from the C source code on the target machine, ensuring transparency and maximum security.
  • 🔒 Quantum-Safe: Protects your users against future threats from quantum computers (Harvest Now, Decrypt Later).
  • 🧩 Type-Safe APIs: Strong typing and enums for all supported algorithms (PqKemAlgorithm.mlKem512, PqSigAlgorithm.mlDsa44, etc.) prevent typos and runtime errors.

Supported Algorithms

Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs)

  • ML-KEM (FIPS 203): ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768, ML-KEM-1024
  • Kyber: Kyber512, Kyber768, Kyber1024
  • FrodoKEM: FrodoKEM-640-AES, FrodoKEM-640-SHAKE

Digital Signatures

  • ML-DSA (FIPS 204): ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65, ML-DSA-87
  • Falcon: Falcon-512, Falcon-1024
  • SPHINCS+: SPHINCS+-SHA2-128f-simple, SPHINCS+-SHAKE-128f-simple

Installation

Add this to your package's pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  flutter_pqc: ^0.0.1

Note: Because this package builds the C library from source, the developer environment must have CMake installed and available in the system PATH.

Usage

1. Key Encapsulation (ML-KEM)

Securely exchange a shared secret between Alice and Bob.

import 'package:flutter_pqc/flutter_pqc.dart';

void main() {
  // Initialize the ML-KEM-512 algorithm
  final kem = PqCryptoKem(PqKemAlgorithm.mlKem512);

  // 1. Alice generates a Keypair
  final keypair = kem.generateKeyPair();
  final alicePublicKey = keypair[0];
  final aliceSecretKey = keypair[1];

  // 2. Bob receives Alice's public key, and encapsulates a shared secret
  final encaps = kem.encapsulate(alicePublicKey);
  final ciphertext = encaps[0]; // Send this to Alice
  final bobSharedSecret = encaps[1]; // Bob keeps this

  // 3. Alice receives the ciphertext, and decapsulates to reveal the shared secret
  final aliceSharedSecret = kem.decapsulate(ciphertext, aliceSecretKey);

  // Both secrets are exactly the same!
  print(aliceSharedSecret == bobSharedSecret); // true

  // Free memory
  kem.dispose();
}

2. Digital Signatures (ML-DSA)

Securely sign and verify a digital message.

import 'package:flutter_pqc/flutter_pqc.dart';
import 'dart:convert';

void main() {
  // Initialize the ML-DSA-44 algorithm
  final sig = PqCryptoSig(PqSigAlgorithm.mlDsa44);

  // 1. Generate Keypair
  final keypair = sig.generateKeyPair();
  final publicKey = keypair[0];
  final secretKey = keypair[1];

  // 2. Sign a message
  final message = utf8.encode('Hello Post-Quantum World!');
  final signature = sig.sign(message, secretKey);

  // 3. Verify the signature
  final isValid = sig.verify(message, signature, publicKey);
  print(isValid); // true

  // Free memory
  sig.dispose();
}

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request on GitHub.

Libraries

flutter_pqc
flutter_pqc_bindings_generated
flutter_pqc_sig