Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 09 October, 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]
  • Pravek Sharma [OQS] - (acting)

    Non-Voting Representative Attendance

    LF Staff

  • Hart Montgomery
  • Ry Jones
  • Kenny Paul

    Other Attendees

  • Bryan Uhri Keyfactor
  • Jason Lee - GSA
  • JP Lomas (Die QRL Stiftung)

Agenda

New faces and changes to agenda

  • Pravek Sharma

WG- OQS update ( Pravek )

  • liboqs release is being propagated down steam
  • expecting some code from nvidia
  • demo repo needs maintainers ___

    WG- PQCP update ( Nigel )

  • github runners going well
  • refactoring on a few projects
  • would like to see one implementation that can be consumed upstream ___

    WG- Tooling (Kenny)

  • List and committee set up in LFX
  • conversation starteds w/ Nigel. ACTION Kenny send email with join information to TAC OQS & PQCP lists and discord channels ___

    Pending issues

  • Brian J - lifecycle stages - most were already approved pre merge
  • impact stage does need a change - PR #54 submitted
  • Max suggests a bi-annual lifecycle review ACTION Kenny look at issue #31 - may need internal support.

Pending Action Items

  • Hart OpenSSL is still in discussion about CLA - need to figure out what we want and what they want. C implementations are what seems to be the first thing. Need to wait for Douglas to come back. Would only apply to those repos that they would want to consume.

Announcements

  • next meeting 10/23 Brian J will lead