qnsp 0.3.0

Official Python SDK for the QNSP Quantum-Native Security Platform — post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon via liboqs), PQC-encrypted vault, KMS, and immutable audit trails. Mirrors the @cuilabs/qnsp-* TypeScript SDKs.

qnsp — Python SDK for the Quantum-Native Security Platform

Typed Python client for QNSP — post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon via liboqs), PQC-encrypted vault, server-side KMS, immutable audit trails. Same wire contracts as the official @cuilabs/qnsp-* TypeScript SDKs — pick whichever language fits your stack and the byte-for-byte outputs round-trip.

Free tier available. Free-forever account at https://cloud.qnsp.cuilabs.io/auth — 60-second signup, no credit card. Includes 10 GB PQC storage, 50 000 API calls/month, 20 KMS keys, 25 vault secrets.

Installation

Base install (HTTP clients for vault, KMS, audit):

pip install qnsp

With local PQC primitives (qnsp.crypto — wraps liboqs-python 0.12.0):

pip install 'qnsp[crypto]'

liboqs-python requires the liboqs C library available on the host. Easiest paths:

Platform	Command
macOS	brew install liboqs
Debian/Ubuntu	apt install liboqs-dev
From source	cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ... — see https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs

(A v0.3.x release will ship cibuildwheel-built wheels that bundle a self-contained liboqs binary, removing the system prerequisite.)

Requires Python 3.10+ and httpx. Tested on CPython 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.

Quick start

import os
import base64

from qnsp import QnspClient

with QnspClient(api_key=os.environ["QNSP_API_KEY"]) as qnsp:
    # ── Vault — PQC-encrypted secret storage ─────────────────────────
    secret = qnsp.vault.create_secret(
        name="openai-api-key",
        payload_b64=base64.b64encode(b"sk-...").decode(),
        algorithm="ml-kem-768",
    )
    fresh = qnsp.vault.get_secret(secret["id"])

    # ── KMS — server-side PQC keys ──────────────────────────────────
    key = qnsp.kms.create_key(algorithm="ml-dsa-65", purpose="signing")
    signature = qnsp.kms.sign(key["keyId"], data=b"hello")
    assert qnsp.kms.verify(key["keyId"], data=b"hello", signature=signature)

    # ── Audit — immutable, hash-chained event log ───────────────────
    qnsp.audit.log_event(
        event_type="model.inference",
        payload={"modelId": "gpt-4o", "latencyMs": 412},
    )

    # ── New in 0.3.0 — full parity with Go and Rust SDKs ────────────
    qnsp.tenant.get_tenant(qnsp.tenant_id)
    qnsp.access.check_permission(subject_id="user-1", permission="vault.read")
    qnsp.billing.get_entitlements()
    qnsp.crypto_inventory.get_readiness_score(qnsp.tenant_id)
    qnsp.storage.put_object("uploads", "report.pdf", data=b"...")
    qnsp.search.query("docs", vector=[0.1] * 768, top_k=5)
    qnsp.ai.invoke_inference(model_id="gpt-4o", input={"prompt": "..."})
    qnsp.auth.login(email="[e-mail]", password="...", tenant_id=qnsp.tenant_id)

Local PQC primitives

qnsp.crypto wraps liboqs-python so you don't have to write oqs calls yourself, and so the algorithm-name surface matches the rest of the QNSP ecosystem (TypeScript, Go, Rust):

from qnsp.crypto import MlKem, MlDsa, SlhDsa, Falcon

# Module-Lattice KEM (FIPS 203)
kem = MlKem("ML-KEM-768")
pk, sk = kem.keygen()
enc = kem.encapsulate(pk)
recovered = kem.decapsulate(enc.ciphertext, sk)
assert recovered == enc.shared_secret

# Module-Lattice signatures (FIPS 204)
sig = MlDsa("ML-DSA-65")
sig_pk, sig_sk = sig.keygen()
signature = sig.sign(b"hello", sig_sk)
assert sig.verify(b"hello", signature, sig_pk)

# Stateless hash-based signatures (FIPS 205) — conservative, no lattice assumption
slh = SlhDsa("SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f")

# Compact lattice signatures (NIST PQC selection)
fal = Falcon("Falcon-512")

Sizes match the FIPS specs exactly (the SDK reads them from the linked liboqs build, so no inline literals drift).

Verifying inbound webhooks

QNSP signs every webhook with HMAC-SHA-256. Verify the raw body before parsing JSON:

from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, HTTPException
from qnsp import parse_qnsp_webhook, QnspWebhookError

app = FastAPI()

@app.post("/webhooks/qnsp")
async def receive(request: Request) -> dict:
    body = await request.body()
    try:
        event = parse_qnsp_webhook(
            body=body,
            signature_header=request.headers.get("x-qnsp-signature", ""),
            timestamp_header=request.headers.get("x-qnsp-timestamp"),
            secret=os.environ["QNSP_WEBHOOK_SECRET"],
        )
    except QnspWebhookError as exc:
        raise HTTPException(400, str(exc))

    if event.event_type == "key.rotated":
        ...
    return {"ok": True}

The verifier runs HMAC comparison in constant time, rejects timestamps older than 5 minutes by default (replay protection), and refuses payloads missing required fields.

Error handling

All errors descend from qnsp.QnspError:

Class	When
QnspNetworkError	DNS, TLS, timeout, or connection failure
QnspAuthError	API key rejected at activation
QnspApiError	A service returned 4xx/5xx with a structured body
QnspWebhookError	HMAC mismatch, expired timestamp, malformed body, etc.

from qnsp import QnspApiError, QnspNetworkError

try:
    qnsp.vault.get_secret("missing")
except QnspApiError as exc:
    print("HTTP", exc.status_code, exc.code, exc.body)
except QnspNetworkError as exc:
    print("Could not reach QNSP:", exc)

Activation + tier introspection

QnspClient performs a one-shot handshake against /billing/v1/sdk/activate on first use. The result is cached in memory; subsequent calls reuse it until ~1 minute before expiry. You can inspect the current activation:

qnsp.tenant_id        # resolved tenant
qnsp.tier             # plan tier
qnsp.limits           # full limits dict
qnsp.has_feature("sseEnabled")  # convenience boolean

If the activation token is rotated server-side, the SDK invalidates its cache and retries the originating request once on a 401.

What's covered today (v0.3.0 — full parity with Go and Rust SDKs)

Customer-facing service modules — every QNSP service callable through the edge gateway:

• qnsp.vault — secrets management (create / get / get-version / rotate / delete / list-versions)
• qnsp.kms — server-side PQC keys (create / list / get / rotate / delete / sign / verify / wrap / unwrap)
• qnsp.audit — immutable hash-chained event log (log-event / ingest-events / list-events)
• qnsp.auth — login, refresh, revoke, WebAuthn passkeys, MFA, SAML/OIDC federation, risk-based auth
• qnsp.tenant — tenant CRUD, crypto-policy management, current-health, current-quotas
• qnsp.access — RBAC roles, role assignments, check_permission
• qnsp.billing — entitlements, usage meters (single + batch), invoice listing, credit balance
• qnsp.crypto_inventory — Cryptographic Bill of Materials: assets, discovery runs, PQC readiness
• qnsp.storage — PQC-encrypted object storage with SSE-X
• qnsp.search — encrypted vector search (index lifecycle, upsert_vectors, query)
• qnsp.ai — model registry, AI workloads with enclave attestation, invoke_inference, artifacts

Local primitives + integration:

• qnsp.crypto (requires qnsp[crypto]) — ML-KEM (512/768/1024), ML-DSA (44/65/87), SLH-DSA (8 variants), Falcon (512/1024), plus HQC, BIKE, FrodoKEM, Classic-McEliece, MAYO, CROSS — every FIPS 203/204/205 finalist exposed by liboqs 0.12.0
• qnsp.parse_qnsp_webhook / qnsp.verify_qnsp_webhook_signature — HMAC-SHA-256 verify + replay protection
• qnsp.QnspClient — API-key activation with caching and 401 retry

What's coming

• AsyncQnspClient — native-async variants using httpx.AsyncClient
• A pytest plugin that mocks the QNSP API for tests in your codebase
• Generated typed responses (currently dict[str, Any]) for every method

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.