This directory contains a Dockerfile that builds nginx using OpenSSL3 with the OQS provider, which allows nginx to negotiate quantum-safe keys and use quantum-safe authentication in TLS 1.3.
Install Docker and run the following commands in this directory:
docker build -t oqs-nginx .This will generate the image with a default QSC algorithm built-in (dilithium3 -- see Build options below to change this).docker run --detach --rm --name oqs-nginx -p 4433:4433 oqs-nginxwill start up the resulting container with QSC-enabled nginx running and listening for TLS 1.3 connections on port 4433.
Complete information how to use the image is available in the separate file USAGE.md.
The Dockerfile provided allows for significant customization of the image built:
Tag of liboqs release to be used. Default "main".
Tag of oqsprovider release to be used. Default "main".
This permits changing the build options for the underlying library with the quantum safe algorithms. All possible options are documented here.
By default, the image is built such as to have maximum portability regardless of CPU type and optimizations available, i.e. to run on the widest possible range of cloud machines.
This defines the quantum-safe cryptographic signature algorithm for the internally generated (demonstration) CA and server certificates.
The default value is 'dilithium3' but can be set to any signature algorithm supported by the oqs-provider.
This defines the set of (possibly PQ) TLS 1.3 groups announced by the running server.
The default value is x25519:x448:kyber512:p256_kyber512:kyber768:p384_kyber768:kyber1024:p521_kyber1024 enabling all Kyber variants as well as two classic EC algorithms. Be sure to disable the latter if no classic crypto should be used by this nginx instance. For the full list of supported PQ KEM algorithms see the oqs-provider algorithm documentation.
This defines the resultant base location of the installatiion.
By default this is '/opt'. Changing this invalidates some paths in the usage documentation.
This defines the resultant location of the installatiion.
By default this is '/opt/nginx'. Changing this invalidates some paths in the usage documentation.
This defines the nginx software version to be build into the image.
The default version set is known to work OK but one could try any value available for download.
Allow setting parameters to make operation, e.g., '-j nnn' where nnn defines the number of jobs run in parallel during build.
The default is conservative and known not to overload normal machines. If one has a very powerful (many cores, >64GB RAM) machine, passing larger numbers (or only '-j' for maximum parallelism) speeds up building considerably.