> I think we should use HPKE until there is reason not to use it.

I agree.

Regarding ML-KEM, I was thinking that we should add X-Wing as a PQ/T Hybrid
KEM to the list of COSE-HPKE ciphersuites at first.

X-Wing: general-purpose hybrid post-quantum KEM
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem/

Daisuke



https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem/

2024年3月5日(火) 22:32 Orie Steele <[email protected]>:

> Draft looks very familiar after have spent so much time with HPKE.
>
> And it would be nice to have at least one pq encryption suite on track for
> standardization.
>
> Having different direct mode alg values for ML-KEM and HPKE that are both
> basically telling you to look an enc... Is wasting registry space.
>
> alg: dir, is sufficient.
>
> The documents that register the new enc modes can explain why.
>
> I think it would be better to see ML-KEM suites in HPKE, instead of seeing
> duplicates.
>
> There will also be different security issues, without the HPKE context and
> key commiting, etc...
>
> There will be worse interop with 2 ways to do the same things.
>
> With hydrids on the horizon... it's a mistake to register hydrids twice...
> Once for HPKE and once for standalone.
>
> I think we should use HPKE until there is reason not to use it.
>
> Is this draft motivated by implementers who could not use HPKE?
>
> Are there critical use cases that multiple vendors need to support that
> only work without using HPKE?
>
> OS
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 5:34 AM tirumal reddy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We have published a new draft
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem-00.html,
>> that describes the conventions for using Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation
>> Mechanisms (PQ-KEMs) within JOSE and COSE.  Although this mechanism could
>> be used with any PQ-KEM, this document focuses on Module-Lattice-based Key
>> Encapsulation Mechanisms (ML-KEMs).
>>
>> Comments and Suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> -Tiru
>>
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>> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 at 10:32
>> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem-00.txt
>> To: Tirumaleswar Reddy.K <[email protected]>, Aritra Banerjee <
>> [email protected]>, Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]>,
>> Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> A new version of Internet-Draft draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem-00.txt has
>> been
>> successfully submitted by Tirumaleswar Reddy and posted to the
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>>
>> Name:     draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem
>> Revision: 00
>> Title:    Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (PQ KEMs) for JOSE
>> and COSE
>> Date:     2024-03-03
>> Group:    Individual Submission
>> Pages:    16
>> URL:
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem-00.txt
>> Status:   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem/
>> HTML:
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem-00.html
>> HTMLized:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-reddy-cose-jose-pqc-kem
>>
>>
>> Abstract:
>>
>>    This document describes the conventions for using Post-Quantum Key
>>    Encapsulation Mechanisms (PQ-KEMs) within JOSE and COSE.
>>
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