Study Group for Future Public-Key Cryptography Standards

Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Sheraton Dalton St., Boston, MA

MEETING SUMMARY

* Reviewed purpose of group (to study and recommend new standards
  projects in public-key cryptography, and generate project authorization
  requests (PARs)) and operational procedures.

* Reviewed purpose and scope of password-based public-key techniques
  document named P1363.2. Vote on wording and final approval deferred to
  August meeting.

* Reviewed purpose and scope of new families document named P1363.1.
  Decided to focus the standard on lattice-based techniques. Vote on
  wording and final approval deferred to August meeting.

* Presentation given on XTR.

* Reviewed public-key validation proposal. Decided that a separate
  standard for PKV is not required, but would like to include PKV in a
  future addendum (P1363b) to the 1363 base standard.

* Reviewed public-key cryptography techniques registry. Agreed that two
  standards documents would be required: one for the process of creating
  and maintaining the registry, and one for the format of the registry
  entries. Determined that further study is required before submitting a
  PAR.

* Next meeting will be in conjunction with IEEE P1363 meeting directly
  after the Crypto 2000 copnference in Santa Barbara, CA.