Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 04 December, 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 Körtge (IBM Research Zurich)
- Aditya Koranga
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Joe Livingston
Introduction of 1st time attendees
- None
Announcements
OQS Update -Spencer Wilson
- Initial feedback on 0.12.0 from users are good.
- open discussion on API
- TSC meeting will cover security and slh-dsa
- looking for additional slh-dla expertise
PQCP Update -Nigel Jones
- mlkem-native v1.0.0-alpha
- blog for release is in the works
- cross-functional API discussion
- no external security audit of code currently scheduled, but having discussions on when to do that. For now the focus is on on being transparent about where things stand.
Tools WG Update -Nicklas Kortge
- creating PRs for bigger, open source repos, where we may want to have BOMs available
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participation is still on the light side as things ramp up.
API differences between the draft standards and the final versions, and the plight of prehashing ML-DSA - Sophie Schmieg
- Sophie shared a presentation
- NIST standardized 4 schemes
- Final standards added a new context string to the signature API, which is a breaking change
- ACTION provide this same talk to PQCP TSC coordinated w/ Nigel
Open Action Items / Issues Review
- recently closed documentation discussions - need to ensure should be opened as a new issue
- Max will respond to issue 42 and close it
- issue 59 Brian will close
- issue 61 - need to allow reviewers a week to review and when clock runs out it gets published
- issue 45 Move issue to OQS for possible adoption before potentially being rolled out further
- suggestion to incorporate this into the annual review of the lifecycle document
- issue 19 several internal discussion threads in progress following work by Kenny last week.
- Kenny’s action from the Nov. 20 TAC meeting - explained that some administrative onboarding tasks will need to precede TAC’s lifecycle process. See message