From f6595e5c7928c47080d3069a184494472da368a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:40:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove `bincode` dev-dependency

`bincode` is unmaintained. See https://crates.io/crates/bincode/3.0.0
---
 Cargo.lock           | 10 ----------
 frodo-kem/Cargo.toml |  1 -
 frodo-kem/README.md  |  1 -
 frodo-kem/src/lib.rs |  5 -----
 4 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2df3ac4..1fca6c0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -61,15 +61,6 @@ version = "1.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "55248b47b0caf0546f7988906588779981c43bb1bc9d0c44087278f80cdb44ba"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bincode"
-version = "1.3.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b1f45e9417d87227c7a56d22e471c6206462cba514c7590c09aff4cf6d1ddcad"
-dependencies = [
- "serde",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
 version = "2.8.0"
@@ -437,7 +428,6 @@ name = "frodo-kem"
 version = "0.0.1"
 dependencies = [
  "aes",
- "bincode",
  "chacha20",
  "criterion",
  "hex",
diff --git a/frodo-kem/Cargo.toml b/frodo-kem/Cargo.toml
index 6f59f8f..c89ab42 100644
--- a/frodo-kem/Cargo.toml
+++ b/frodo-kem/Cargo.toml
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ zeroize = "1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 aes = "0.9.0-rc.2"
-bincode = "1.3"
 criterion = "0.7"
 hex = "0.4"
 hybrid-array = "0.4"
diff --git a/frodo-kem/README.md b/frodo-kem/README.md
index 06e2bcf..d9c4104 100644
--- a/frodo-kem/README.md
+++ b/frodo-kem/README.md
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ On Armv8, the rust shake implementation is faster than the openssl implementatio
 This crate has been tested against the following `serde` compatible formats:
 
 - [x] serde_bare
-- [x] bincode
 - [x] postcard
 - [x] serde_cbor
 - [x] serde_json
diff --git a/frodo-kem/src/lib.rs b/frodo-kem/src/lib.rs
index 9ef4148..67e50f0 100644
--- a/frodo-kem/src/lib.rs
+++ b/frodo-kem/src/lib.rs
@@ -1741,9 +1741,4 @@ mod tests {
         postcard::to_stdvec,
         postcard::from_bytes
     );
-    serde_test!(
-        serialization_bincode,
-        bincode::serialize,
-        bincode::deserialize
-    );
 }