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2025-02-13 : TSC Minutes

Agenda

• Welcome

• Minutes/actions from previous meeting

• Membership changes

  • Douglas Stebila has now resigned from the TSC
  • Welcome the mldsa-native project (agreement via github)
    • Propose @jakemas as voting TSC member
• New meeting time proposal - current proposal:
  • Europe/Asia meeting at 1000 CET
    • 0900 UK, 1700 Taiwan
  • Europe/USA meeting at 1700 CET
    • 0800 US West Coast
    • 1000 Toronto
    • 1100 US East Coast
  • Scheduled for 30 minutes in Central Europe time zone & will follow daylight savings.
  • Continue with Thursday. 2 weeks between meetings, so 4 weeks per slot.
• Updates from related communities:
  • PQCA
  • Open Quantum Safe

• Review status of sub projects:

  • mlkem-native
  • mldsa-native
  • mlkem-libjade
  • mlkem-rust-libcrux
    • what do do with repo/docs
  • mlkem-native
    • liboqs integration
    • NIST clarification
    • OpenSSL CLA

• Discussion (if not covered previously)

  • Other Open TSC issues
• Any other business

Welcome

Noted that Douglas has resigned as per agenda notice, and that ML-DSA native is welcomed as a new subproject

Minutes/actions from previous meeting

Updates from related communities

PQCA

• A blog post was published two weeks ago from Nvidia on accelerating PQC.
• A blog post is being prepared for the one-year anniversary of PQCA.
  • There will be a section in the blog post on PQCP.
  • A section on “what to expect in 2025” will be included.

OQS

• Two big changes were getting mlkem-native into OQS thanks to Basil Hess and the ML-KEM implementation from CUPQC from Nvidia.
• There have been loose conversations around API changes.
  • The feeling is that preserving the current three-function API is not a priority, and offering flexibility to users is preferred.
• Discussions are underway about whether PQCP should make its own ML-KEM provider.
  • A new issue will be created for discussion.
• An issue was recently opened on liboqs talking about adding checks for ML-KEM keys.
  • The specific check that it mentioned is called pairwise consistency checks.

Review of subprojects

mlkem-native

• API changes are being discussed.
  • The API will be implemented in MLKEM-Native.
  • The NIST discussions did not go any further.
  • The API will be implemented in a backward, compatible way.
  • Additional functions will be added.
  • The NIST issue will be closed.
• The AWS-LC integration is in progress.
  • A pull request has been opened: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc/pull/2176 The OpenSSL CLA issue was discussed.
• The issue is whether to get the contributors to ML-KEM-Native to sign the CLA.
• This means not just the current contributors but also the previous contributors to the reference implementation.
• The feedback from Peter Schwabe was positive, but he has yet to reach out to the rest of the team.
• There are nine people in the AUTHORS file of the reference implementation.
• It is not very likely that OpenSSL will use the PQCP algorithm.
• The PQCP TSC needs to decide whether it is worth the time to get the CLA signed.
• The issue will be closed if it is not going anywhere.
• The PQCrystals team will be double-checked.
• If they have not signed the CLA, then the issue will be closed.

Open TSC issues

It was noted we should review the backlog in a future meeting

Any other business

• An offline vote will be held on whether to add Jake Massimo (@jakemas) to the TSC as a voting member.
• Agreed to reschedule future meetings as per notice in Agenda - PQCA Calendar will be updated

Action items

New

Outstanding

Completed

• Document our process/policy on OpenSSL CLA
• Review/followup NIST clarification around deserialized parameters (Hanno/Matthias)

Recordings

• Recordings are available on your Open Profile page under Past Meetings.

Upcoming TAC meetings

• Next TSC meeting in 2 weeks, 2025-02-27 0900 UTC.

Please check the calendar

Attended by

TSC voting members

• Manuel Barbosa, University of Porto
• Hanno Becker, AWS
• Nigel Jones, IBM
• Matthias J. Kannwischer, Chelpis Quantum Tech
• Franziskus Kiefer, Cryspen
• Tiago Oliveira, Sandbox AQ
• John Schanck, Mozilla
• Pravek Sharma, University of Waterloo

Additional attendees

• Jp Lomas, Die QRL Stiftung

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