Subject: [T2TRG] T2TRG @ IETF102

From: Carsten Bormann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:00:54 +0200

T2TRG will meet in two different contexts at IETF102:
— during the Hackathon with WISHI work (which we still need to announce to the hackathon wiki and mailing list)
— with a summary meeting.

The agenda for the latter is forming at:

https://github.com/t2trg/2018-ietf102

We have reserved about an hour for discussion about next steps in IoT security.
Several people have already said that they want to make impulse presentations on this; we should mainly focus on discussion.

Areas that we could be talking about include:

— new crypto for IoT, selecting crypto, crypto transitions
  This includes both the symmetric space, which may benefit from aligning around some form of Keccak, and the asymmetric space, which might include the transition to CFRG curves in the short term and the transition to quantum-safe algorithms in the long run.
  The discussion should focus on what research is needed (or already available!) to make good standards decisions in this space.
— semantics for security
  This includes semantics-based ACL formats, signed claims, and harder problems such as the issue of combining claims from multiple provenances.
— security/privacy for semantics and self-description
  This sounds similar, but is really about security and privacy aspects in the interchange of semantic information and self-description.
  E.g., can we manage a transition from fact-based to claim-based (provenance-aware) semantic inference?
— relationship to dinrg (blockchain?)
  DINrg is doing interesting work on decentralized infrastructure, and infrastructure for decentralized applications.  IoT could benefit from both, and not just in terms of adopting blockchains.

We have a bit more than two weeks left until the summary meeting on Thursday, July 19, 2018, at 15:50 EDT.
If you want to speak at the summary meeting about one of these subjects (or some other issue relevant for the next steps in security), please talk to [email-masked].  If you want to start the discussion on any of these right now on the mailing list, e.g. by pointing to existing interesting work, please go ahead!

Grüße, Carsten