Re: Fwd: PQC in Firefox and Thunderbird

Hi Falko,

On 22.08.23 08:52, Falko Strenzke wrote:
> Our two interests are PQC algorithms for TLS in 
> Firefox and S/MIME in Thunderbird. As I understand it you are working on 
> the former.

does the experimental code in bug 1775046, which John mentioned, help 
you in any way for your request?

Would you be able to build Firefox yourself with that experimnental 
code, and perform interoperability tests?

Regarding S/MIME, I'm not aware of anyone working on PQC support for the 
CMS code in the NSS library yet, and I personally haven't seen any plans 
for that yet either.

Are there already specifications/RFCs that describe how to use PQC 
algorithms with CMS for S/MIME?

If yes, do those specifications use the same algorithms as TLS?

If yes, a project to add PQC support to the CMS module of the NSS 
library could use the NSS algorithm implementations.

As of today, I haven't seen any plans to work on that. Unless Firefox 
has a need for CMS, then this kind of enhancement would likely have to 
be driven by the Thunderbird Project, or by contributors who would like 
to see this functionality added to Thunderbird.

I don't have answers for your other questions.

Regards
Kai

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