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

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>
wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2015, at 12:11 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <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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