PQC Interoperability Project
summary
Project documents a hackathon-born effort (started IETF 2022) that produces an artifact repository of X.509 archives, a set of prototype OIDs (migrated to NIST OIDs for the three FIPS algorithms, with temporary OIDs for composites), and a public compatibility matrix showing interop results. Automated tests run over uploaded archives using libraries like Bouncy Castle and liboqs/QuantCrypt, scanning artifacts and publishing HTML summaries; recent hackathons have ~25–30 participants and revealed concrete spec fixes and format mismatches.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00PQC Interoperability Project intro
- 1:04IETF hackathon process overview
- 6:27PQC hackathon focus
- 8:54Collaboration and artifact testing
- 12:51Standards and interoperability findings
- 15:44Joining the PQC hackathon
- 16:48Q&A: Hackathon planning
- 17:53Q&A: RFC 8784 and algorithms
- 19:17Q&A: HSM support and deployment
- 20:09Q&A: Hackathon growth
- 20:57Q&A: Interoperability challenges
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