Re: [Crypto-panel] Reviews for 4 PAKEs (PAKE slection process)

["Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev" <[e-mail]>]

Dear Björn,

Many thanks for your reply and for your confirmation!

>> I’ll most likely get around to it only in March, though.
We need the reviews before March, 10th – is it OK for you?

Regards,
Stanislav

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 23:11, Bjoern Tackmann <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Dear Stanislav,
>
> sure, I’ll update my review, I’ll also adapt it to some insights I got
> through further discussions with Hugo and Stanislaw Jarecki. I’ll most
> likely get around to it only in March, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Björn
>
>
> > On Feb 11, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Crypto Review Panel members,
> >
> > Due to the plan of the second round of the PAKE selection process, we're
> approaching Stage 4 of Round 2:
> >
> > Stage 4: February, 12th - March, 10th
> > Crypto Review Panel members prepare new overall reviews (for all 4
> remaining PAKEs) taking into account both the reviews obtained on Round 1
> and new information obtained during Round 2.
> >
> > Let me remind you, that we have 4 candidates passed to Round 2: CPace,
> SPAKE2 (balanced) and AuCPace, OPAQUE (augmented).
> >
> > The authors of the protocols have provided their answers to the
> additional questions that were asked after IETF 106 meeting (see
> https://github.com/cfrg/pake-selection/blob/master/README.md#questions-for-round-2
> ).
> >
> > Their answers have been provided in the mailing list (see links at
> https://github.com/cfrg/pake-selection/blob/master/README.md#answers-on-round-2
> ).
> >
> > The previous overall reviews by Bjoern Tackmann, myself, Russ Housley
> and Yaron Sheffer are available at
> https://github.com/cfrg/pake-selection/blob/master/README.md#overall-reviews-by-crypto-review-panel
> . All other reviews are available here:
> https://github.com/cfrg/pake-selection/blob/master/README.md#summary-of-reviews
> >
> > So now we need reviews (each review should consider all 4 protocols -
> otherwise it will be more difficult to compare) for the remaining
> candidates. The reviews should be done before March, 10th.
> >
> > First of all, it will be very important if Bjoern, Russ and Yaron could
> do their new (or, better to say, updated) reviews, since they have done
> them at the previous round. It will be great if Scott could participate,
> since he provided very important reviews on certain issues.
> > Also since now we have Chloe, Julia, Karthikeyan, Thomas, Jean-Philippe
> and Jon on board.
> > In this process we need as many good reviews as possible, so we ask all
> of you to consider your participation.
> >
> > Please let us know, whether you are ready to do this, before February,
> 13th.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stanislav (on behalf of the CFRG chairs)
> >
> >
>
>