Re: [Cfrg] CFP - NIST Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards

Given that there is this overlapping activity I would suggest that the
chairs make sure that the work in the group is moving forward according
to the schedule.

I appreciated that Alexey posted a status update and a plan:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg05813.html

According to that message outcome of the discussion should be declared
today.

Ciao
Hannes

On 01/16/2015 09:03 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> I don't think that is quite right Paul.
> 
> NIST has traditionally been the standard setter in this area. It is
> clear that this is no longer tenable for a variety of reasons beyond
> Snowden. But being NIST they can't just say 'whatever'.
> 
> The question in my view is what continuing role NIST should play in
> public crypto standards. One that I think would be very valuable and not
> raise control point issues would be to provide challenge values for a
> small set of preferred algorithms. If generated in an appropriate way
> these would provide irrefutable proof of a break.
> 
> And this is a model that other national standards institutes could copy
> without coordination being required. 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org
> <mailto:paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Jan 16, 2015, at 12:11 AM, Hannes Tschofenig
>     <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net <mailto:hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>> wrote:
>     > I wonder what you think about this upcoming workshop since it more or
>     > less aims to do what this group is working on.
> 
>     Nothing in the workshop announcement says that it "aims to do what
>     this group is working on". It is on the same topic, but the aims are
>     completely different and, as Kenny points out, the timescales are
>     vastly different.
> 
>     The descriptive work that the RG has done in the last six months
>     about comparison of EC proposals would be great input to the
>     workshop. Beyond that, the CFRG's aim right now is still to give the
>     TLS WG something to work with, a few months ago.
> 
>     --Paul Hoffman
> 
> 
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Re: [Cfrg] CFP - NIST Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards

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