Shorter week as I was on PTO and spend a good chunk of the remaining time catching up from that period!
Distro
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- Catching up with recent landscape changes: NIST published the first PQC standards a couple weeks ago (FIPS-20{3,4,5})
- liboqs can be used both by openssl and gnutls but its packaging is on hold for two reasons:
- upstream asked to wait until NIST publishes the standards; NIST just published the first ones (fourth to follow soon)
- The Debian maintainer has trouble with the copyright updates which is indeed messy; I plan to help in the coming months
- It’s too late for anything to land in 24.10 but that sounds like a good goal for 25.04
Others
- Looking at some enablement/experiments for an internal project