Re: [Cfrg] BLS standard draft

Hi all,

With no intent to cast aspersions on this particular scheme, I'm not sure
that CFRG should be putting a lot of time into non-quantum-safe schemes
these days unless there's a compelling reason to.

Cheers,

William

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:44 PM Sergey Gorbunov <sgorbunov@uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> We submitted a draft-00 on the BLS signature scheme.
> We received some preliminary feedback from interested parties, and we plan
> to continue updating it as we receive more.
> Please take a look.
> We appreciate any additional feedback!
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-boneh-bls-signature/
>
> Abstract
>
>    The BLS signature scheme was introduced by Boneh-Lynn-Shacham in
>    2001.  The signature scheme relies on pairing-friendly curves and
>    supports non-interactive aggregation properties.  That is, given a
>    collection of signatures (sigma_1, ..., sigma_n), anyone can produce
>    a short signature (sigma) that authenticates the entire collection.
>    BLS signature scheme is simple, efficient and can be used in a
>    variety of network protocols and systems to compress signatures or
>    certificate chains.  This document specifies the BLS signature and
>    the aggregation algorithms..
>
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
> web <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~sgorbuno/>
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