Re: [pkng] Possible research areas for pkng
"Polk, William T." <william.polk@nist.gov> Thu, 12 November 2009 09:09 UTC
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To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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I don't know if the cfrg has looked at these algorithms or not; I was using a paper by Ray Perlner and David Cooper as the source for candidate algorithms. When I get back to NIST, I'll get a copy and ship to both pkng and cfrg. Tim ________________________________________ From: Stephen Farrell [stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:57 AM To: Polk, William T. Cc: pkng@irtf.org Subject: Re: [pkng] Possible research areas for pkng Polk, William T. wrote: > Folks, > > While I am not losing any sleep over quantum computing, success in this technology area would be a real game changer for PKI. There is a set of algorithms that are plausibly quantum resistant, but they are generally unsuitable for X.509 style PKI. Keys are huge with one algorithm, and can only be used to generate limited numbers of signatures with another. I would be very interested in any work that explored alternative infrastructures better suited to these algorithms. It behooves us to be ready... Good one. Have cfrg done any of the basic work there? I would assume that they'd be better placed to nominate potential algorithms, and our job would be to see what that meant for our non-infrastructure. S. > > Tim Polk > _______________________________________________ > pkng mailing list > pkng@irtf.org > https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/pkng >
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