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Bob Beck
— On the schedule —
PLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates
Merkle Tree Certificates are a way to provide an equivalent proof of name to key that is provided by a conventional certificate, that is inheritly post quantum proof as it depends on hashes. It's goal is to avoid enormous PQ signatures and keys on the wire which become prohibitively large for repeated rapid validations suchas on modern busy web pages. At it's simplest form, it carries one pq signature, and provides a certificate size comparable to using RSA certificates today. At anoptimized form it can be even smaller. We will go over how this works, and what some considerations will be if you want to plan on using them in the future.
— Compositor's note —
Bob Beck is a Canadian software developer who has worked on many Open Source projects since 1995. Bob was born in the United States, but was taken along when his parents escaped to Canada in a balloon during the Nixon regime. Bob has been involved in OpenBSD since 1995, along with OpenSSH and LibreSSL, In the past he has worked on security infrastructure for Apple Icloud, Chrome Browser and BoringSSL for Google. Bob joined OpenSSL last year after the Chrome decimation. Bob lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with the most patient woman in the world, and two dogs, one of which is a carefully calibrated reference dog.