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A fresh, self-contained write-up following the internal review release of RISC-V PQC / Keccak Extension and recent updates to Karu64: new, faster benchmarks and RVA23S64 profile support.

RISC-V PQC v0.1 is available with its Zvknhk specification, Spike, QEMU, OpenSSL, and test support, and Karu has moved to the new encoding.

Why PQC gets 50% faster with Vector Keccak on Karu, updated for the official RISC-V Zvknhk draft and its new vkeccak.vi encoding.

Benchmarking stock OpenSSL on Karu with its Zvk cryptography extensions.

First public release of the karu64 RV64 core and the karudeb Debian riscv64 distribution that boots Linux on it.