FWICT: Streamlined NTRU Prime (sntrup) has no known patent issues. Should be fine.
Regardless, a "double-wrapped bitcoin address of some kind" can be specified, coded up and the relevant module replaced whenever the dust settles. I know Bitcoin doesn't (yet) have fee "weights", but i still think these addresses should be called "heavier" if they are at al significantly slower to validate. On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 2:07 PM Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laol...@gmail.com> wrote: > The NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography competition [1] results should be > published "soon": > > https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/fvnhyQ25jUg/m/-pYN2nshBgAJ > . > > The last reply on that thread promised results by the end of March, but > since that has come and gone, I think it's safe to expect results by the > end > of this month (April). FWIW, NTRU and NTRU Prime both made it to round 3 > for > the public key encryption/exchange and digital signature categories, but > both of them seem to be mired in some sort of patent controversy atm... > > -- Laolu > > [1]: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:36 PM Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> First step could be just implementing a similar address type >> (secp26k1+NTRU) and associated validation as a soft fork >> >> https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.0 >> >> Then people can opt-in to quantum safe addresses >> >> Still should work with schnorr and other things >> >> It's a lot of work to fold this in and it's a some extra validation work >> for nodes >> >> Adding a fee premium for using these addresses in order to address that >> concern seems reasonable >> >> I'm not saying I endorse any action at all. Personally I think this is >> putting the cart like six and a half miles in front of the horse. >> >> But if there's a lot of people that are like yeah please do this, I'd be >> happy to make an NTRU bip or something. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >
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