Key Transparency
bofreq-mcmillion-key-transparency-00

The information below is for an older version of this BOF request.
Document Type Proposed BOF request Snapshot
Title Key Transparency
Last updated 2023-01-26
State Proposed
Editor Brendan McMillion
Responsible leadership
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bofreq-mcmillion-key-transparency-00

Key Transparency

Description

Key Transparency (KT) is a safe, publicly-auditable way to distribute public keys for end-to-end encryption. More generally, the same technology can also be used for tamper-evident logging, key usage detection, ensuring that a group of users agree on a shared value, and many other applications.

This effort aims to standardize a common protocol for Key Transparency that 1.) works for a large range of use-cases, 2.) provides clean security guarantees, 3.) is able to be thoroughly studied by security researchers, and 4.) has trustworthy open source implementations.

Required Details

  • Status: Not WG Forming
  • Responsible AD: Paul Wouters, Roman Danyliw
  • BOF proponents: Brendan McMillion <brendanmcmillion@gmail.com>
  • BOF chairs: TBD
  • Number of people expected to attend: 20
  • Length of session (1 or 2 hours): 1 hours
  • Conflicts (whole Areas and/or WGs)
  • Chair Conflicts: TBD
  • Technology Overlap: TBD
  • Key Participant Conflict: TBD

Information for IAB/IESG

Agenda

  • Problem statement
  • Proposed scope of work
  • Presentation of current draft protocol
  • Wrap-up

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