IEEE Identity Key Management Working Group (Fifth Meeting)

Bytom held the fifth meeting of the IEEE Identity key management (IKM) working group in Hotel Nikko Suzhou on April 29, 2021. Firechain Technology, Sichuan Changhong, Math Wallet, Ontology, CZBank, and other members participated in the discussion about some questions about the previous draft.

At 1:30 pm, Bytom’s CEO and working group chairman Lang Yu announced the start of the meeting and introduced the agenda of the meeting, and reviewed the content of the last meeting, patent, and intellectual property declarations, etc. Liu Qiushan, the principal researcher of Bytom, introduced the draft of P3209 and discussed some issues of the draft.

At the meeting, Mao Xianping, an expert from Ontology, provided insights on the security of the cross-chain self-certification scheme, and believed that replay attacks may be encountered for being a long time. Fan Jingwen, an expert from Sichuan Changhong, believes that CKD/HKD needs to consider different strengths and levels. Experts from FireChain, Zhongke Fuyun have also expressed constructive opinions on the draft.

Liu Qiushan, the researcher of Bytom institute divided the draft into five parts: seed and deterministic derivation, mnemonic word generation seed, hierarchical path specification, key storage, and cross-chain self-certification. Then he assigned work task of each member to better formulate and modify standards.

At the end of this meeting, all members planned the next meeting and the follow-up research work on the standard. The next meeting is planned to be held in one month.

The attendees of this meeting (in no particular order)