Hi Peter,

Please see inline

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 at 22:17, Peter C <pete...@ncsc.gov.uk> wrote:

> Tiru,
>
>
>
> Is SLH-DSA considered a practical option for TLS end-entity certificates?
>
>
>
> Under realistic network conditions, TLS handshakes with full SLH-DSA
> certificate chains seem to be about 5-10 times slower than traditional
> certificate chains and, in some cases, can take on the order of seconds.
> See, for example, the results in https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/071,
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1447, https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1728103 and
> https://thomwiggers.nl/post/tls-measurements/.
>
>
>
> I agree that there’s an argument for using SLH-DSA in root certificates,
> but I’m surprised it’s being proposed for the full chain.
>

SLH-DSA is not proposed for the end-entity certificates, it is preferred
for CA certificates (please see the 3rd paragraph in
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa-00.html#section-2)

-Tiru


>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Russ Housley <hous...@vigilsec.com>
> *Sent:* 03 November 2024 11:13
> *To:* tirumal reddy <kond...@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* IETF TLS <tls@ietf.org>
> *Subject:* [TLS] Re: New Version Notification for
> draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa-00.txt
>
>
>
> Thanks for doing this work.  I hope the TLS WG will promptly adopt it.
>
>
>
> Russ
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>
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> On Nov 2, 2024, at 8:15 PM, tirumal reddy <kond...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This draft https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa/
> specifies how the PQC signature scheme SLH-DSA can be used for
> authentication in TLS 1.3.
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> -Tiru
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: <internet-dra...@ietf.org>
> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 at 05:39
> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa-00.txt
> To: Tirumaleswar Reddy.K <kond...@gmail.com>, John Gray <
> john.g...@entrust.com>, Scott Fluhrer <sfluh...@cisco.com>, Timothy
> Hollebeek <tim.holleb...@digicert.com>
>
>
>
> A new version of Internet-Draft draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa-00.txt has been
> successfully submitted by Tirumaleswar Reddy and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:     draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa
> Revision: 00
> Title:    Use of SLH-DSA in TLS 1.3
> Date:     2024-11-02
> Group:    Individual Submission
> Pages:    8
> URL:      https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa-00.txt
> Status:   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa/
> HTML:     https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa-00.html
> HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-tls-reddy-slhdsa
>
> Abstract:
>
>    This memo specifies how the post-quantum signature scheme SLH-DSA
>    [FIPS205] is used for authentication in TLS 1.3.
>
>
>
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