[messaging] Post-quantum forward-secrecy

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Aug 5 14:31:36 PDT 2015


On Wed 2015-08-05 16:48:21 -0400, Martin Albrecht wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 16:35:29 Jeff Burdges wrote:
>> As I understand it, there are no mature post-quantum Diffie-Hellman
>> alternatives, but NTRU is a relatively mature post-quantum public key
>> system.  Any attempt to use NTRU thus requires three steps.
>
> You might find
>
>    Post-quantum key exchange for the TLS protocol from the ring learning with 
>    errors problem
>    Joppe W. Bos and Craig Costello and Michael Naehrig and Douglas Stebila
>    https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/599
>
> and the works reference therein interesting. 

see also:

 https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-tls-7.pdf

and:

 https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Blog/Entries/2015/7/13_Quantum-Safe_wolfSSL.html

for NTRU hybridization with DHE in TLS.

    --dkg


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