Using Pre-Shared Key (PSK) in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
draft-housley-cms-mix-with-psk-04
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Author | Russ Housley | ||
Last updated | 2018-04-03 | ||
Replaced by | draft-ietf-lamps-cms-mix-with-psk | ||
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Abstract
The invention of a large-scale quantum computer would pose a serious challenge for the cryptographic algorithms that are widely deployed today. The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) supports key transport and key agreement algorithms that could be broken by the invention of such a quantum computer. By storing communications that are protected with the CMS today, someone could decrypt them in the future when a large-scale quantum computer becomes available. Once quantum-secure key management algorithms are available, the CMS will be extended to support them, if current syntax the does not accommodated them. In the near-term, this document describes a mechanism to protect today's communication from the future invention of a large-scale quantum computer by mixing the output of key transport and key agreement algorithms with a pre-shared key.
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