IEEE P1363 Working Group for Public-Key Cryptography Standards

Meeting Summary (unapproved)

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2001
Marriott Airport Hotel, Toronto, ON

P1363a:
- The current draft didn't pass the e-vote because the vote
  missed quorum.
- Our sponsor requested we include patent information in an annex.
- Burt Kaliski and David Stern will work together to produce diagrams.
- Reviewed comments and agreed to take the most contentious issues
  to the mailing list.
- Kaliski will incorporate responses in time for an e-vote, starting
  on or around June 15th. The next MSC meeting is on July 9th.

P1363.1:
- Discussed the fact that EESS#1 specifies encoding methods in more
  detail that P1363.1; felt that P1363.1 needed more detail.
- Discussed primitives/scheme separation. Look into revising it.
- Voted to include NTRU encryption in P1363.1.
- Dan Lieman stepped down as editor, William Whyte took over.

P1363.2:
- David Jablon has received comments on specific techniques which
  he will incorporate in the next draft.
- Discussed overall structure of the document
- Discussed the Rationale section.
- Phil MacKenzie will submit his SNAPI technique for inclusion in
  the document.

Registry:
- IEEE have suggested a different form for the registry; the meeting
  was more enthusiastic about the registry than previously.

Working Group:
- The group was in favor (in theory) of slightly relaxing the
  membership criteria.
- Singer requested that anyone who knew of other standards body
  meetings pass them to the Secretary, so he can keep track of
  potential conflicts.
- All officer positions are up for election this year. Nominations
  open in August, and the vote will take place in September.

P1363b:
- Pil Joong Lee expressed an interest in editing P1363b. This will
  depend in part on progress with the registry.