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Re: [Cfrg] BLS Signature for X.509

Dan Brown <danibrown@blackberry.com> Wed, 05 October 2016 18:19 UTC

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From: Dan Brown <danibrown@blackberry.com>
To: 'Paul Grubbs' <pag225@CORNELL.EDU>, Antonio Sanso <asanso@adobe.com>
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Hi Antonio,

Can you briefly expand on the advantages of BLS, especially the aggregation of chains [citing also a reference]?  How well are these advantages aligned with IETF needs?  At the moment, I’m a little skeptical that the benefits (smaller chains?) outweigh the risks (relying on pairing-groups), but I could be wrong.

Just to be clear, although BLS uses pairing-groups, it does not have any escrow worries (unlike IBE etc.), or am I badly mistaken?

Is BLS standardized elsewhere (ISO, IEEE 1363*, etc.)?

In any event, you could prepare an individual I-D to propose BLS to IETF, although I do not how much it would be accepted.

Pairing-groups have been proposed for in use IETF before:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-budronimccusker-milagrotls/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6508/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6509/

Best regards,

Dan


From: Cfrg [mailto:cfrg-bounces@irtf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Grubbs
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 1:53 PM
To: Antonio Sanso <asanso@adobe.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] BLS Signature for X.509

The IETF does play an important role in the process, but most people (at least in the US) won't consider anything in crypto 'standardized' unless it involves NIST.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Antonio Sanso <asanso@adobe.com<mailto:asanso@adobe.com>> wrote:
hi Paul,

thanks. Isn’t where this group can help though (namely standardization) ?

regards

antonio

On Oct 4, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Paul Grubbs <pag225@cornell.edu<mailto:pag225@cornell.edu>> wrote:


BLS signatures would be nice for many reasons. The lack of standardized pairing groups makes it a little difficult from a deployability perspective, I think.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Antonio Sanso <asanso@adobe.com<mailto:asanso@adobe.com>> wrote:
anyome :S ?

On Sep 30, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Antonio Sanso <asanso@adobe.com<mailto:asanso@adobe.com>> wrote:

> hi *,
>
> sorry for the noise.
> I was wondering if it was already discussed the idea to use BSL Signature for X.509.
> AFAIK this will avoid certificate chains thanks to the signature aggregation property…
> If this was already discussed I apologize.
> If not WDYT about this?
>
> regards
>
> antonio
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