IEEE P1363 Study Group for Future Public-Key Cryptography Standards

Thursday, August 24, 2000
Flying A Studio meeting room, University Center, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA/

MEETING SUMMARY 

* Our sponsor has extended the lifetime of the study group to March 2001.

* The deadline for PARs is October 27th.

* Discussed a PAR for P1363.1, lattice-based techniques in public-key
  cryptography, and approved the PAR with certain amendments. Singer
  will implement the amendments and submit the PAR.

* Discussed a PAR for P1363.2, password-based techniques, and approved the
  PAR with certain amendments. This PAR introduces the concept of a Protocol
  (which uses the output of one scheme as the input to another), which
  may lead to new issues with the security model. Jablon will implement
  the amendments and Singer will submit the PAR.

* Discussed the registry concept again. It requires two documents: one
  describing the registry concept, one specifying the format of submissions.
  There are still several issues to be talked through, such as how to
  map relations between schemes, how to motivate people to work on 
  registry documents, who will have access to the registry, and whether 
  its scope wil be broader than existing P1363 documents. Singer and
  Stern will assemble further study material and Singer will pursue some
  of the issues with IEEE.