Re: [lamps] [Ext] [Pqc] PQC X.509 115 Hackathon

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 4, 2022, at 6:00 PM, Mike Ounsworth <Mike.Ounsworth=[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hi LAMPS and people interested in PQC!
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> As suggested at 114, my colleague John Gray and I would like to do a 115 Hackathon on PQ keys and signatures in X.509 / PKIX.
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> We are suggesting to play with Dilithium, Falcon, Sphincs+, and Composite signing algorithms in Certs, CRLs, CSRs, PKCS#12s, CMS SignedData, maybe OCSP Responses, maybe Timestamping, maybe CMP. We can bring: the Entrust Toolkit (which we can hack at), Bounce Castle, OpenQuantumSafe-openssl, OpenCA (easier if Max Pala is there, but we can probably figure out how to build it).
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> The point of the hackathon, I think, is going to be OIDs, and public key / private key formats (ex.: the differences between Dilithium and Falcon encodings in draft-uni-qsckeys, and draft-massimo-lamps-pq-sig-certificates).
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> Question 1: are others interested in joining us at the hackathon? (no point is signing up for a hackathon spot if we’re the only ones there)
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> Question 2: whether or not you're joining, what PQ X.509 / PKIX things would you like to see working with Dilithium, Falcon, Sphincs+, Composite?

Just as a note, you can participate in the Hackathon remotely, although in-person is much more rewarding if you're in the London area that weekend. The IETF Hackathons have helped move forward protocols in a huge variety of areas, sometimes by thoroughly being able to show that particular proposals don't work in practice. If you're a programmer (which I'm not!) with time and interest that weekend, consider participating even if you are not able to attend in person.

--Paul Hoffman