[Cryptech Core] peering into the dusk

[Leif Johansson]

On 2014-09-26 02:06, Randy Bush wrote:
> thanks to serious efforts by joachim, fredrik, paul, et alia, we are
> nearing having noise, trng, a bunch of hashes, ... up on novena, a
> generally usable (i.e. by software types) development platform.  this
> is a serious step and we should be pretty darned happy.

w00t!

> 
> to give some coherence of how to move forward, i suggest we start
> discussing the needs of a few potential first 'customers,' namely
> dnssec, rpki, and bgpsec.  this will tell us what vertical slices of
> the layer cake to prioritize.

I will volunteer to very quickly do something with XML-dsig as soon as
there is a shim that can (minimally) do sign.

> 
> if this makes sense, perhaps jakob will lead the dnssec requirements
> discussion, and rob rpki and bgpsec.  and i presume linus will chime
> in with tor, which is good.
> 
> it might be good to plan another meeting in late january or early
> february.  we can start arguing about dates.
> 

Is there an event we can piggyback on?

> as a 'side' meeting, joachim and i are inclined to ask someone such as
> viktor fischer from jean monnet university saint-etienne to come up and
> concentrate on design of a next gen trng.  he taught a great rng
> tutorial at ches.  maybe the thing to do is to get matts/ericsson to
> host a small rng day and we invite others?

that is a great idea! Do you want to talk to Mats or should I?

	Cheers Leif