[Sls-sea-dls] FYI - Documents of interest and upcoming Spring meetings

[Howard.Weiss at parsons.us]

I came across a couple of interesting documents that I though I would share with all of you.

The first one is an Internet-Draft called "Adapting Constrained Devices for Post-Quantum Cryptography" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pquip-pqc-hsm-constrained/) is a nice analysis of the use of PQC on constrained devices.  For them, constrained are small devices such as IoT, etc.  However, for us, a spacecraft fits into the 'constrained device' genre.  This document describes tradeoffs between storage and computation in constrained devices - e.g., save memory by storing only key seeds but then having to spend computational power to derive keys from the seeds effecting performance. I believe that some of the information contained in the Internet Draft would be useful to capture in the revised CCSDS Algorithms Green Book and the SDLS Green Book.

The second document (attached) was produced by the Australian Signals Directorate Cyber Security Centre (ASD ACSC) in collaboration with the Australian Space Agency, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, New Zealand National Cyber Centre, and the US National Security Agency, called "Securing Space: Cyber security for low earth orbit satellite communications."  The document provides information on cybersecurity risks for low-earth orbit constellations. Nothing that we haven't seen before, but its interesting reading and useful as a reference for our cybersecurity threat work.

As a note, the Spring CCSDS meetings will be held in about 2 months.  You should have received an email with the link to register.  Please register regardless of whether you will be attending in-person or if you are attending virtually. Also, please send along agenda items you would like to be discussed.

I hope to see you in Mayaguez Puerto Rico in May. Note: Puerto Rico is a US territory.

Regards

howie


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HOWARD WEISS, CISSP
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