Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 15 Jan, 2025
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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 [PQP]
- Spencer Wilson, U Waterloo [OQS]
Non-Voting Representative Attendance
LF Staff
- Hart Montgomery
- Ry Jones
- Kenny Paul
Other Attendees
- Nicklas Kortge
- Jason Lee
- Aditya Koranga
- Joe Livingston
Introduction of 1st time attendees
- none
Announcements
OQS Update -Spencer Wilson
- Reviewed a draft security response process and a threat model for liboqs, both of which should be in place within a week or two.
- The 0.12.0 update of liboqs, which supports the final version of MLDSA, is being integrated into other projects.
- Also discussing the long-term goals of liboqs, and the possibility of shifting from an experimental to a production-ready codebase.
- The main challenge with such a shift is the need for a larger contributor base with more industry experience writing production code.
- Norm suggested that they consider a narrowly scoped set of objects rather than the whole of OQS.
PQCP Update -Nigel Jones
- A follow-up needed on the CLA discussion for OpenSSL
- A draft PR has been opened to integrate the ML-KEM native implementation into liboqs.
- There are ongoing discussions about code structure to ease the import process. This will be the first algorithm consumed from PQCP.
- There is no pipeline for other implementations or languages, but it needs to be discussed.
- They need contributors from the research community to contribute code from PQCP to liboqs.
- A blog when liboqs is released would be appropriate
Tools WG Update -Nicklas Kortge
- Missed Tuesday’s working group meeting but a colleague hosted it.
- Unfortunately, there was no participation- concerned if there is an issue with the meeting visibility. Kenny verified that it is set up as a bi-weekly meeting on the community calendar.
- Close to finalizing the legal documents. currently an open action with the LF.
- A blog post on the tooling when released would be appropriate
Old Business
- none
New Business
- Max requested that each working group should plan on contributing a bit on the 1st year blog posts and then individual blog posts about future plans.