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Re: [saag] SSH & Ntruprime

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Thu, 11 April 2024 09:14 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:52:53 -0700
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Subject: Re: [saag] SSH & Ntruprime
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Hi Simon,
At 01:31 PM 10-04-2024, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>If the IETF wants to move forward with this as a standard then certainly
>change control belongs to the IETF, so speaking for myself: yes.  There
>is a prototype for a new SSH key exchange mechanism based on the
>stronger Chempat Hybrid PQ/T KEM and non-sntrup761 PQ algorithms in the
>works, and others are working on different SSH KEX PQ designs.  If the
>IETF has an interest in this work that discussion could be moved into
>the IETF sphere, but given the attitude towards this effort I can't say
>that I blame SSH people for low IETF participation.

The Last Call announcement is at 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/pcoVXz6bb1iQfEMAdoWSa3AVZoc/ 
draft-josefsson-ntruprime-ssh-01 gives change control to the IETF.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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