Yawning Angel transcribed 3.0K bytes: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:07:40 +0530 > Jaskaran Singh <jvsg1303@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm particularly interested to work on making TOR Handshakes > > Post-Quantum Safe. I feel that this should be implemented at the > > earliest because adversaries could store the network traffic and > > decrypt it later on using Quantum Computers when they're invented. > > So there's good news and bad news. > > The good news is that PQ handshake stuff will happen, sooner rather > than later. > > The bad news is that, work on it is on going, and it does not make a > good GSOC project because, the bulk of the implementation work will > likely happen before the summer. It will? > > 2. Implement the NewHope-Simple algorithm[1] because we'll not be able > > to use the Vanilla NewHope as it is protected by some patents. I > > wasn't able to find any implementation of NewHope Simple. So can the > > Vanilla NewHope Implementation be tweaked to convert it into NewHope > > Simple? Or would we have to write it from ground up? I don't know > > about the patent laws regarding it. > > I haven't talked to Peter in a while (and will ask him after I send > this), but I am not aware of any patent claims against the vanilla > NewHope algorithm (and the NewHope-Simple paper does not mention this > at all either). Sorry, I'm being deliberately vague about this because I don't want to feed the patent trolls or provide a weapon to anyone who wants to fight against good crypto, but the patent exists, and it affects nearly all lattice-based handshakes. NewHope simple is not affected. My (ongoing, but Nick asked me to stop last summer until there was funding for it) work on integrating standard NewHope is here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/tor.git/log/?h=feature/rebelalliance Best, -- ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev