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David McGrew | 7 Dec 2011 19:00
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Is Cryptographic Theory Practically Relevant? (Was: Re: cfrg co-chair)

Hi Kenny,

On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Paterson, Kenny wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> There are indeed ECRYPT members on the list and paying attention!  
> One of our objectives as a network of excellence is to find ways to  
> engage with people developing standards, implementing cryptography,  
> etc. So there is certainly interest and appetite from individuals  
> within ECRYPT for providing input to CFRG.
>
> One immediate item that may be of interest to CFRG is the annual  
> ECRYPT report on key lengths and algorithms, which is available here:
>
> http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents.html
>
> Another item of possible interest is the following ECRYPT co- 
> sponsored workshop happening in Cambridge (UK) in Jan/Feb 2012:
>
> Is Cryptographic Theory Practically Relevant?
> http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/sasw07.html

thanks for pointing this workshop out to the list.  I had noticed it  
and was thinking that I should aim to get some engagement with CFRG,  
considering that the agenda of "theory -> practice" lines up well with  
the RG charter.

>
> I am co-organizer of this workshop - so if someone from CFRG is
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David McGrew | 13 Dec 2011 15:32
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Re: cfrg co-chair

Thanks to everyone for their input, both on-list and off-list.  I'm  
calling consensus on having Kevin as co-chair for the Crypto Forum RG.

I also note the good suggestions for the RG to make an effort to  
engage with crypto programs like ECRYPT and CRYPTREC.  Ideas on how to  
do this are welcome.  One thought: we can have an in-person meeting  
during the March 2012 IETF meeting in Paris.

David

On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Dan Harkins wrote:

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>  Ditto.
>
>  Dan.
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> On Tue, November 22, 2011 5:10 am, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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>> same here
>> S
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>> On 11/22/2011 10:57 AM, Sean Turner wrote:
>>> +1
>>>
>>> spt
>>>
>>> On 11/22/11 12:17 AM, Sean Shen 沈烁 wrote:
>>>> +1
>>>>
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Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer | 20 Dec 2011 23:17
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Re: password-based key exchange

One minor comment (which might be totally obvious):

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cfrg-bounces <at> irtf.org [mailto:cfrg-bounces <at> irtf.org] On Behalf
Of
> Dan Harkins
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:38 PM
> To: cfrg <at> irtf.org
> Cc: tls <at> ietf.org
> Subject: [Cfrg] password-based key exchange
> 
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   I proposed a new TLS ciphersuite using a zero knowledge proof at
> IETF 82 in Taipei. The draft is here:
> 
>        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-harkins-tls-pwd-01
> 
> At the TLS WG meeting I was requested to ask people on the CFRG list
> with expertise in this field to take a look at it. So here I am,
> asking.
> If someone has some spare cycles this holiday season, if you just
gotta
> get away from the relatives, or you are just feeling in the giving
> mood,
> please take a look and comment. Any analysis on this would be greatly
> appreciated. (I tried to do a formal proof but I cannot, and that's
> what's prompting this).
>
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