Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 28 August, 2024

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Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)

Premier Member Representatives

  • Brian Jarvis, Amazon Web Services Inc. [TAC Vice Chair]
  • Michael (Max)imilien, IBM [TAC Chair]
  • Norman Ashley, Cisco
  • Sophie Schmieg, Google
  • Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA

### Project Representatives

  • Nigel Jones, IBM [PQCP]
  • Thomas Bailleux, SandboxAQ [OQS]

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

LF Staff

  • Hart Montgomery
  • Ry Jones
  • Kenny Paul

Other Attendees

  • Aditya Koranga (univ. Delhi)
  • Alex Bozarth
  • Bryan Uhri
  • Pierre-Elisée Flory (Thales)
  • Hugo Landau

Decisions

PQCP status update

  • Progress on embedded implementation
  • Generic C reference implementation (from PQ-Crystals repo) will be ramping up
  • No pipeline updates

deferred Lifecycle Document issues

  • https://github.com/PQCA/TAC/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+%22Project+Lifecycle%22
  • A lot of discussions were pulled out of the document
  • Please add your input to the list
  • Will assign topics to individuals where appropriate
  • Max or Brian can transfer ownership
  • ACTION - Please all participants review the open issues.

Working Group proposals

  • https://github.com/PQCA/TAC/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+%22Working+Group%22

    Industry #34

  • Focus on the proposal is on telco.
  • A few other companies demonstrating interest
  • Likely to have 1-2 projects to start with
  • There is “a race among telco operators” to achieve this transition
  • Some aspects of the work are already part of LFN’s 5G Super blueprint
  • ACTION Aditya share information on the breadth and scope of existing community next meeting

    Tooling #14

  • Specifically for non-algorithms, non-library work
  • Extension to SonarQube WIP from IBM - likely candidate for a project.
  • Motion from Max on WG creation, 2nd from Norman to proceed with a vote.
  • ACTION - Kenny Initiate an e-vote for WG creation

    Doc #8

  • tabled to next meeting

    Algorithm #7

  • evaluating way forward

    Security and Governance #2

  • Need to have Emily Fox speak at an upcoming meeting.

Concern was expressed that expanding working groups too rapidly could have adverse impact. The TAC needs to ensure there is sufficient interest in the community for a new WG to be approved.

New business

  • PQ Cyber Day @ ICMC Sept. 17, 2024 San Jose, CA, USA Doodle poll for evening gathering
  • ACTION Kenny send email to individual TSC lists.