Re: [Crypto-panel] Soliciting reviews of submitted PAKE algorithms

[Tibor Jager <[e-mail]>]

Dear Stanislav,

Yes, this would make it much easier for me. Thank you.

I do not have a preference w.r.t. balanced / augmented PAKE, so please assign to me whatever makes most sense.

Cheers,
Tibor


Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev <[e-mail]> writes:

> Dear Tibor,
>
> Many thanks for your reply!
> Would you be able to do a review if the deadline for this first stage
> (verification of security assessments) will be moved from September, 15th,
> to October, 15th?
>
> Best regards,
> Stanislav
>
> вт, 13 авг. 2019 г. в 11:20, Tibor Jager <[e-mail]>:
>
>> Dear Stanislav,
>>
>> These reviews and the corresponding deadlines come at an unfortunate time
>> for me, as I already told Alexey last week.
>>
>> I am currently in the process of moving to a different university, my
>> starting date there is September 1st. I am currently spending 110% of my
>> time to make sure that all research funds and staff are transferred in due
>> order, such that all students will remain funded, which is much less
>> trivial than what I would have expected. I also have to organize lectures
>> at my old and new university, make sure that students are taken care of,
>> etc., and will soon have to start preparing new lectures.
>>
>> Of course I will try to help as much as possible with the reviews, but it
>> is currently very difficult for me to make any promises and binding
>> commitments, given the rather tight reviewing deadlines.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Tibor
>>
>>
>>
>> Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev <[e-mail]> writes:
>>
>> > Currently, we've got only two crypto review panel members who will
>> verify the security proofs - Bjoern Tackmann and myself, each of us will
>> review 4 PAKEs.
>> >
>> > I sincerely hope that Scott Fluhrer, Pierre-Alain Fouque and Tibor Jager
>> will join us here and help with reviewing the security proofs.
>> > Scott, Pierre-Alain, Tibor, will you be able to do this? If yes, which
>> of two batches (4 balanced PAKEs or 4 augmented PAKEs) will you prefer?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Stanislav,
>> > CFRG Secretary
>> >
>> >
>> > пн, 12 авг. 2019 г. в 10:29, Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]
>> <mailto:[e-mail]>>:
>> > Same as Russ, I am not a cryptographer and will not be able to review
>> > proofs. I will be happy to review the other material.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >         Yaron
>> >
>> > On 07/08/2019 22:46, Russ Housley wrote:
>> >> Alexey:
>> >>
>> >> I am not the right person to review proofs.  I will review the other
>> >> gathered material for the submissions, as needed.
>> >>
>> >> Russ
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 1:58 PM, Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]
>> <mailto:[e-mail]>
>> >>> <mailto:[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Dear Crypto Review Panel members!
>> >>>
>> >>> According to the plan, the most important parts of the PAKE selection
>> >>> process is done by the Crypto Review Panel members.
>> >>> More precisely, the Crypto Review Panel members will need to do the
>> >>> following:
>> >>> 1) Crypto Review Panel members do the verification of security proofs
>> >>> of the candidates and overall security assessment by September 15th
>> 2019.
>> >>> 2) Crypto Review Panel members review all gathered materials
>> >>> (including independent reviews). If additional explanations are
>> >>> needed, Crypto Review Panel members ask for them from the designers.
>> >>> Crypto Review Panel members write overall reviews for all candidate
>> >>> PAKEs, based on the materials that have been gathered and verified.
>> >>> This is to be done by October 30th 2019.
>> >>>
>> >>> We have 8 nominated PAKEs: 4 balanced and 4 augmented.
>> >>> Each member is asked to provide reviews for either all 4 balanced or
>> >>> all 4 augmented PAKEs (or for all 8 PAKEs, if the member is happy to
>> >>> do that).
>> >>>
>> >>> Please reply to this message and tell the CFRG chairs about your
>> >>> willingness to do this and, if yes, would you prefer to deal with 4
>> >>> balanced PAKEs or with 4 augmented PAKEs (or, maybe, with all 8 of
>> them).
>> >>>
>> >>> Best Regards,
>> >>> Alexey (on behalf of CFRG chairs)
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