Re: [Cfrg] Adoption call for draft-hoffman-c2pq-02

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 02:30:26PM +0000,
 Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> CFRG Chairs are asking for any objections to adopting "The
> Transition from Classical to Post-Quantum Cryptography"
> (draft-hoffman-c2pq-02) as a CFRG document.

I've read the document but I'm not a cryptograpĥer (and not a quantum
physicist either). Just a concerned engineer using cryptography daily.

I think it is a excellent idea to have a RFC published on this
question, and this document seems to me a very good basis.

I do not hope it will give me a simple and final answer, since 1) we
don't have all the facts (we don't know if the NSA found a quantum
computer in the alien ship they are studying in area 51) 2) a lot
depend on quite fundamental research, whose progress is hard to
predict (there is no Moore's law for quantum computers). But I would
be interested in a serious document to use as a reference.

I expect that 2018 will see a lot of hype around post-quantum
cryptography and IETF people will need data on that. I already heard a
high-level CxO talking about chinese QKD progress, and pretending it
allows them to break RSA :-(

I'm ready to read and review.