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Re: [MLS] TreeKEM: An alternative to ART

Benjamin Beurdouche <benjamin.beurdouche@inria.fr> Thu, 10 May 2018 23:52 UTC

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> Perhaps.  I'll note that I did raise IoT at the BoF, and the sense
> of the room seemed to be that it was out of scope.  That said, the
> draft charter should be going out for community review real soon
> now, and we can certainly have a discussion then.

I don’t think so, my feeling was that the room didn’t want to make the center of the work, but I do think that MLS is useful and might be used for IoT.

We definitely are and, in the future, should be keeping in mind constraint environments when designing MLS even though it is not the top priority...

B.

>> So, my question is, in terms of resources, what would be the better choice for such medium sized but low on CPU and RAM groups? Is it ART or TreeKEM? 
> 
> (The above should not be construed as a request to not explore the
> answers to these questions.)
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> -Ben
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