IEEE P1363 Study Group for Future Public-Key Cryptography Standards

Wednesday, November 15, 2000
NSA, Fort Meade, MD

Meeting Summary:

* The PARs for P1363.1 and P1363.2 have been submitted.

* Role of the registry:
  - IEEE Standards Association seem supportive.
  - We need to establish what the relationship will be with other
    registry-like projects, such as NESSIE, Cryptrec, ISO 18033.
  - The registry might also be useful for bodies such as W3C's XML
    signature group.

* Registry process document:
  - Process document will contain processes and criteria for adding,
    removing and reaffirming techniques.
  - We need to consider the naming of revised documents and
    potential backwards compatibility issues.
  - The process standard needs to consider legal or copyright
    disclaimers.

* Registry format document:
  - We need to allow some flexibility for, for example, formatting
    of auxiliary functions which are of different type from the
    existing ones.

* Scope, Purpose and Examples document
  - The document was considered a useful basis for discussion.
  - We might consider having a separate "recommended techniques"
    document to avoid implying that an entry in the registry is
    endorsed by the working group.

* Singer to put out a call for volunteers for the registry
  documents (not the registry entries).

* Singer and Kaliski to direct mailing list discussion of the
  purpose and scope.

* Solinas will put a section about the registry on the website once
  he has a document to link to.

* Singer to put together PAR for the next study group meeting.

* At the next meeting, the study group will consider the PAR for the
  registry and subsequently dissolve. There may be a teleconference 
  to ensure that the PAR is completed in time.