Recent Activities of the Working Group:
Std-1363: The IEEE editors have completed their editing of the approved D13 of the 1363 document. It has been found that the version that was edited does not exactly correspond to D13 however. Leo Reyzin, one of the previous editors of the document, is leading the effort to provide the final edits for the IEEE and to resolve the discrepancies. It is anticipated that the final editing by the working group will be completed in early July and re-submitted to the IEEE for publication.
P1363a: The major content of the P1363a document has been agreed upon. There is still work to be done to ensure that the requirements for all of the schemes included in the draft standard are met. A patent solicitation letter needs to be sent out asking for information regarding the patent status and licensing assurances regarding methods found in the draft standard. The current planned schedule is to complete work on the document by March of 2001 and submit the document for ballot in April of 2001.
P1363b: The possibility of creating a new amendment to 1363 was discussed. This amendment would continue to add new methods that the working group felt have satisfied the requirements for inclusion in 1363. There is no current plan to proceed with this document, however there are plans to discuss it further in the future.
Recent Activities of the Study Group:
The Study Group For Future Public-Key Cryptography Standards was started in March to look at possibilities for new standards relating to the 1363 standard and public-key cryptography in general. The attendees for the study group meetings have been primarily working group members, however there are some new members.
Lattice-based Public-key Cryptosystems: The study group intends to submit a PAR to the IEEE and MMSC on a standard which would describe methods for public-key cryptography in the lattice-based family. These methods would be similar to the methods described in 1363, but based on a different hard problem and different cryptographic operations. This project would be called P1363.1.
Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange: The study group intends to submit a PAR to the IEEE and MMSC on a standard which would describe methods for password-based authenticated key exchange. This document would be less closely related to 1363 that P1363.1, but would fit within the scope of the study group. This project would be called P1363.2.
Public-key Cryptography Registry: The study group intends to put together a PAR for a new "Standard" which would define a submission and review process for a public-key cryptography registry and format for entries. It is envisioned that this registry may ultimately replace 1363 as the authoritative IEEE source for public-key cryptography methods and their properties. The details of this registry concept are still being worked out.
Meetings:
The working group and study group held meetings in March in Berlin, Germany and meetings at the end of May in Boston, MA, USA.
The next meetings are scheduled for August 24-25 in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. The next meetings after that should be in November and NTT has offered to host them in Japan.
It is also anticipated based on the action items for the study group and the limited time available at the August meeting (it will directly follow Crypto '00) that there may be some teleconferences scheduled to discuss study group issues.
Current Officers:
Chair: Ari Singer, asinger@ntru.com, NTRU, 5 Burlington Woods Rd., Burlington, MA 01803 USA
Vice-chair: Don B. Johnson, djohnson@certicom.com, Certicom, 4253 Sleepy Lake Dr., Fairfax, VA 22033 USA
Secretary: William Whyte, wwhyte@baltimore.ie, Baltimore Technologies, Dublin, Ireland
Treasurer: Dan Lieman, lieman@math.missouri.edu, Dept. of Math, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
Working group chair
Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth
Kirchoff Institute for Physics
University Heidelberg
Schroeder Str. 90
69120 Heidelberg
phone: +49 6221 54 4303
fax: +49 6221 54 4345
e-mail: voli@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
I. Current Status
The P1596.9 PAR is approved by IEEE. X3J11 coordinates this standards
activity. A first version of a subset of the API was implemented as
student work using Dolphin interconnects. The standard itself is stable
since a long time.
III. Plans for next period
Continue development and further the implementation.
IV. Schedule through RevCom submission
- Date PAR Approved 6/28/96
- Date/Plan for Requesting MSC Balloting Approval N/A
- Date/Plan for Ballot Close(s) N/A
- Date/Plan for RevCom Submission(s) N/A
V. Reasons for any change in schedule - N/A
VI. Key open issues and proposed solutions
VII. Officers of WG (include phones, FAXs, and emails)
Working group chair
Volker Lindenstruth
Kirchoff Institute for Physics
University Heidelberg
Schroeder Str. 90
69120 Heidelberg
phone: +49 6221 54 4303
fax: +49 6221 54 4345
e-mail: voli@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
Working group vice chair
David B. Gustavson
Exec. Director, SCIzzL
1946 Fallen Leaf Lane
phone: 415/961-0305
fax: 415/961-3530
e-mail: dbg@SCIzzL.com
VIII. WG meeting schedule and agenda of next meeting
TBA
1. MSC approved P1394.3 to be forwarded to ballot. Ballot invitations were sent out and the ballot body is to be formed by July 5, 2000. We are planning on using an electronic ballot. 2. Current WG draft PPDT_r12.pdf is available from home page at http://www.pwg.org/p1394/dot3.html web site or directly at http://www.pwg.org/p1394/PPDT_r12.pdf . The working group has made minor corrections to the draft prior to submission after further review and consultation with IEEE editors. After a two week review of the latest draft, we will forward to IEEE for balloting. Respectfully submitted, Gregory LeClair IEEE P1394.3 WG Chair gleclair@ieee.org
July 6, 2000
Subject: P1386 (CMC) and P1386.1 (PMC) Status Report
Sponsor ballot of both draft standards closed on June 28th. As of July 4th, have not received ballot results from IEEE Standards Department. By mid August, will compile ballots results and will update both drafts. Depending on comments and associated edits, may do a recirculation ballot. Go to www.TahoeWayne.com for download of latest drafts, ballot results and associated comments (will post by mid August).
Regards
Wayne Fischer
Chair and Draft Editor of P1386 and P1386.1
wfischer@nvbell.net