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

[Karthikeyan Bhargavan <[e-mail]>]

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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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)