[MLS] Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites-04 (Ends 2026-05-13)

[Sean Turner <[e-mail]>]

Hi!

NOTE: We are consider the message from Soatek, see [0], as a a WGLC comment.

Cheers,
Nick and Sean

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mls/goy5Lzp4Sqht5fUSQTXJuzpR9hU/

> On Apr 29, 2026, at 12:12, Sean Turner via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> This message starts a WG Last Call for:
> draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites-04
> 
> This Working Group Last Call ends on 2026-05-13
> 
> Abstract:
>   This document registers new cipher suites for Messaging Layer
>   Security (MLS) based on "post-quantum" algorithms, which are intended
>   to be resilient to attack by quantum computers.  These cipher suites
>   are constructed using the new Module-Lattice Key Encapsulation
>   Mechanism (ML-KEM), optionally in combination with traditional
>   elliptic curve KEMs, together with appropriate authenticated
>   encryption, hash, and signature algorithms.
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> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites/
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> There is also an HTML version available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites-04.html
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> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites-04
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> The Github repo for this Internet-Draft can be found at:
> https://github.com/mlswg/mls-pq-ciphersuites