[Lake] Re: The EDHOC name

Mališa Vučinić <malisa.vucinic@inria.fr> Mon, 21 September 2026 08:55 UTC

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:55:17 +0200
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Hi Michael,

See inline.

Mališa

> On Sep 19, 2026, at 20:24, Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> So the protocol is called LAKE now?

Yes, we had good consensus on that in Vienna.

> I can live with that, but I didn't feel any change was needed :-)

> Just stop expanding _DH_ to refer only to ECDH/ECDSA.

That is essentially option 2 in [1], which we adopted. For new documents, we agreed to use the term LAKE.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/materials/slides-126-lake-00-chairs-slides-04


> Or find another backronym.
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