Supporting Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography with Cryptographic Modules (G11b)
The state of the art in privacy-enhancing cryptography (PEC) includes various tools that fall outside traditional standardization activities. Yet, as technology advances, some of these PEC tools (ZKP, SMPC, PSI, searchable encryption, etc.) are becoming more pertinent to address real world challenges, and are in fact being used in various real world applications. In this talk, we give an update of the recent activities of the PEC project at NIST, and pose a number of questions relevant to the cryptographic modules community. Of particular interest is the identification of the next level of basic primitives that can be used as building blocks for myriad cryptographic applications. Should the next generation of cryptographic modules provide built-in support for some of these primitives?