Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 20 Nov, 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]
  • Spencer Wilson, U Waterloo [OQS]

    Non-Voting Representative Attendance

    LF Staff

  • Hart Montgomery
  • Kenny Paul
  • Ry Jones

    Other Attendees

  • Nicklas Kortge
  • Jason Lee
  • Joe Livingston

  • Guncha Malik

    Introduction of 1st time attendees

  • Joe Livingston, Crypto group @ IBM

    OQS Update -Spencer Wilson

  • 0.12.0 release release candidate next week
  • ML-DSA in liboqs has been the focus
  • watching APIs closely

  • One security update in the pipeline

    PQCP Update -Nigel Jones

  • Ongoing discussions on ML-KEM - topic for the next TSC call.
  • Work on Jasmine framework continues

  • Team is looking upstream to make determination on how CI can best be handled

    Tools WG Update -Nicklas Kortge

  • Pulling existing knowledge around CBOM together
  • group education as a first step.
  • Looking into creating a PR template

  • Max will provide help getting internal review for a Charter

    Old Business

  • Vote requested on the Experimental track project for hybrid PQC & QKD keys based upon Dr. Ling’s proposal last on Nov. 6.
  • Order of operations issue - need a PR submitted first for review

  • ACTION Kenny to pull up the lifecycle doc and validate

    New Business

  • none

    Open Action Items / Issues Review

    Issue #45 nigel to evaluate Issue #44 max & nigel to review Issue #43 nigel follow-up Issue #42 brian can be closed Issue #37 max close today Issue #36 max close today Issue #31 kenny still open - hart will chat up LFX team at the event Issue #19 kenny set up a list Issue #8 tabled - to be discussed on the next TAC call