Re: [Crypto-panel] Request for review: CPace

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

Hi Karthik,

Any news with the review?

Regards,
Stanislav (for CFRG chairs)

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 12:00 PM Karthikeyan Bhargavan <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Ok. I will put this on my stack.
>
> All my best,
> Karthik
>
> On 11 Oct 2023, at 10:56, Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Bjoern, Karthik and Thomas,
>
> The chairs would like to ask each of you to review the CPace draft,
> "CPace, a balanced composable PAKE", draft-irtf-cfrg-cpace-10 (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-cpace/).
>
> There were a lot of reviews of the protocol and the early versions of the
> draft, see https://github.com/cfrg/pake-selection
> There were several important questions in those reviews which had to be
> addressed during the evolution of the draft in CFRG: some of them are
> underlined in the following paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/839.pdf –
> we would like to ask you to pay special attention to these issues.
>
> It would be great if you could do it before the middle of November.
>
> Best regards,
> Stanislav (for CFRG chairs)
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 10:51 AM Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We still need reviewers (three or four) for the CPace draft.
>>
>> Since CPace was a winner of the PAKE selection process, we have to be
>> 100% sure that all concerns have been properly addressed.
>>
>> Bjoern, Russ, Karthik, we will be happy to receive reviews from you
>> (taking into account your reviews provided during the PAKE Selection
>> process).
>>
>> Chloe, Julia, Jean-Philippe, Scott, if some of you could review the CPace
>> draft, despite the fact that you've just reviewed the OPAQUE draft (thanks
>> a lot once again for this!), that would be amazing as well.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stanislav (for CFRG chairs)
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 3:17 PM Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev <
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Crypto Panel Experts,
>>>
>>> The chairs would like to ask the Crypto Panel to provide three (or more)
>>> reviews for the CPace draft, "CPace, a balanced composable PAKE",
>>> draft-irtf-cfrg-cpace-10 (
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-cpace/).
>>>
>>> The CPace protocol was selected as a result of the PAKE selection
>>> process in CFRG (as well as the OPAQUE protocol which has recently been
>>> reviewed by the Panel).
>>>
>>> There were a lot of reviews of the protocol and the early versions of
>>> the draft, see https://github.com/cfrg/pake-selection
>>> There were several important questions in those reviews which had to be
>>> addressed during the evolution of the draft in CFRG: some of them are
>>> underlined in the following paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/839.pdf
>>>
>>> Hence we would like to ask the reviewers to pay a lot of attention to
>>> reviewing this draft, trying to take into account as many considerations
>>> provided in the previous reviews as possible.
>>>
>>> Stanislav (on behalf of the CFRG Chairs)
>>>
>>
>