Minutes of the January 9th, 2024 Meeting

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Present: John Gray, Rene Fischer, Alexander Railien, Felipe Ventura, Daniel Van Geest, Marcos Fiallos , Julien Prat, Carl Wallace, Mike Ounsworth

Welcomed New Members: Marcos Fiallos, Daniel Van Geest, Rene Rischer

Rene Rischer - Working with the Botan Cryptographic library - C++, Projects with German Federal space which needs a trusted cryptographic library, will add to botan provider artifacts started by Jan Klassner

Marcos Fiallos (IBM) - Interested in the Interoperability testing - Planning to get some artifacts uploaded in time for the virtual hackathon.

Daniel Van Geest (CryptoNext) - Working on PQ for the past 7 years. Many of us know him already.

Discussion Items:

• Virtual Interim Hackathon, Saturday January 27th 9:00 am - 4:00pm EST
• Action: John sent an invite to the team for the virtual hackaton - Done
• Rene asked about format of Public Keys and Private Keys we use and if they will be standard. Consensus is that we expect FIPS/IETF to specify the exact key formats. At the moment we use OCTET STRING and there has been discussions in IETF and other places that seem to confirm this is the preferred format.
• Rene also asked how we handle prototype OIDs in our various products. Most people release products with the prototype OIDs as beta or internal or with caveats stating the OIDs are not the final standard.

Round Table Discussion

Carl Wallace - Starting working on KEM.

Julien Prat - No update - Planning to implement composite signature and provide some test vectors.

Marcos Fiallos - Planning to add some artifacts in time for the virtual hackathon.

Daniel Van Geest - Working on KemRecipientInfo, looking for people to interop test with KEMRecipientInfo. Had a comment that the file name conventions in the R3 artifact are a bit messy, but despite that it is workable.

Alexander Ralien - Working on CMP interoperable test suite. Currently working on payload examples of CMP with PQ algorithms inside. Will attend the next hackathon in person.

Felipe Venture - Composite signatures for open quantum safe. Open quantum safe provider, debuggin on the code.

Rene Rischer - German government is going to use Frodo KEM (which will be standardized by ISO) and Classic McEliece. We should add prototype OIDs for these algorithms so they can be tested.

Mike Ounsowrth - No updates

John Gray - Posted updated to composite signature -11. Working on implementing composite signatures, and planning to most new artifacts before virtual hackathon.

Next meeting Tuesday February 6th