[Ssh] Re: Secure Shell Maintenance (sshm) WG Virtual Meeting: 2026-10-07

[Damien Miller <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2026, IESG Secretary wrote:

> The Secure Shell Maintenance (sshm) WG will hold a virtual interim meeting on
> 2026-10-07 from 08:00 to 09:30 UTC.
> 
> Agenda:
> - Discuss issues with https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sshm-composite-sigs/

one of the pending items for discussion was whether to either add a
certificate format to the hybrid PQ signatures draft or to add a formats
for the hybrid signatures to the certificates draft.

IMO the certificates draft is a fair bit further along, and I don't think
it makes sense to stall it for a draft that is at an earlier stage so,
in the interests of having something concrete to discuss, I've written a
certificate format section in the hybrid signatures draft.

https://github.com/djmdjm/drafts/blob/c47dc10f1b/draft-ietf-sshm-composite-sigs.txt#L461

I don't intend to push this to datatracker until we've had a chance to
discuss it and unless the discussion falls in favour of doing it this
way.

This section could also be used a the basis for a similar thing in the
non-hybrid ML-DSA draft.

See you tomorrow :)

-d