RNS8 is pre-1.0 research software and is not yet a production-hardened cryptographic or distributed-compute component.

Please report security issues privately through GitHub's vulnerability reporting flow for this repository when available. If that is unavailable, open a minimal issue that does not include exploit details and ask for a private contact path.

Security-relevant issues include:

• Memory safety bugs in public C/C++ APIs.
• Host/device buffer size overflows.
• Incorrect validation that could silently change exact arithmetic semantics.
• Unsafe handling of cache, environment, or generated artifact paths.

Performance-only regressions and unsupported-backend failures should use the normal issue templates.

Only the current default branch and active release PR stack are in scope before 1.0. There are no long-term support branches yet.