Minutes of the July 18th, 2023 Meeting

[johngray-dev]

IETF Hackathon 117 is this coming weekend!

• We will use Gather Town Table G as in past Hackathons for remote participation - https://app.gather.town/app/L4fNNdm1NJa1sE2v/ietf
• For the remote and online meetings, we decided to meet on gather at Saturday 11am and 2:30 pm PDT (UTC-7), Sunday at 12:00pm PDT (UTC-7). See https://wiki.ietf.org/e/en/meeting/117/hackathon/teamschedule
• People planning to be in person, remember to bring headsets so you can hear the remote participants.
• We discussed the items we want to work on:
  • PQ Keys, Signatures, Certificates (as usual)
  • Delta Certificates (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bonnell-lamps-chameleon-certs/)
  • KEM Certificates
  • Composite KEM certs. Generation of composite KEM examples (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ounsworth-pq-composite-kem/)
  • Certificate Binding / Discovery (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-becker-guthrie-cert-binding-for-multi-auth/)
  • CMS KEM and CMS composite KEM (see https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-housley-lamps-cms-kemri-00.html)
  • PQ in PKCS12
  • Discussion of composite signatures
  • Quite a bit of discussion on creation of bare-bones DER encoder for verifying certificates. Carl mentioned we should take a look at Rust crypto formats library (see https://github.com/RustCrypto)

The above list was generated by asking everyone on the call what they were looking forward to work on. We are open to other possibilities.

Hackathon Happy Hour Presentation

• We agreed on spending some time to come up with a better presentation for the hackathon "happy hour". Probably Sunday night, or sometime during the day Monday. We will discuss at the Hackathon. Mike Ounsworth volunteered to work on producing compatibility matrix results that we can publish!

OID List Discussion

• We discussed the OID table. John Gray volunteered to update it and include the SPHINCS+ updates recently added to LibOQS. Since we are looking at doing some work with KEM, John will also look at coming up with OIDs we can use for Bike, HQC and McEliece.

See you Saturday at the Hackathon!

One thing we forgot to mention is that last time our hackathon team went out to dinner on the Sunday night after the Hackathon. I think there is enough of us that would like to do this again, so we will make a plan for a team dinner on Sunday night (sorry remote participants)...