Re: [jose] Support PQC in JOSE

thanks. It sounds reasonable.

I will subscriber to CFRG mailing list so .

regards

antonio

On Feb 1, 2016, at 4:37 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:

> 
> The IRTF's CFRG [1] are at the beginning of considering PQC
> so I'd say discussion would be much better off there and not
> (yet) in the IETF. IMO none of the PQC schemes are ready for
> prime-time right now, so CFRG is a much better venue.
> 
> Cheers,
> S.
> 
> [1] https://irtf.org/cfrg
> 
> On 01/02/16 09:50, Antonio Sanso wrote:
>> ops it look like I kind of fat fingered , meant 
>> 
>> A quantum computer will break totally this (thanks to Shor's algorithm).
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Antonio Sanso <asanso@adobe.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> hi *,
>>> 
>>> I know that this might sounds a bit crazy but I think that is time to kind of think about Post Quantum Cryptography (and JOSE should not be left out).
>>> But let me rewind a bit. 
>>> According to the last research (done from IBM et al) and NSA suggestions, having a quantum computer is “only” 8/15 years from now (maybe earlier)
>>> Taking as example JWS it support RSA signature. A quantum computer will break computer will break totally this (thanks to Show algorithms).
>>> Thinking about start to expand JWS specification to use some of the PQC is not so inimmaginable IMHO.
>>> For example having JWS supporting Hash based signatures would be a great move (always IMHO :)) for JOSE and JWS. 
>>> 
>>> WDYT?
>>> 
>>> antonio
>>> 
>>> P.S. a great post about Hash based signatures and Merkle tree is at https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/07/18/hashsig.html
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