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[TLS] Re: Working Group Last Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

Kris Kwiatkowski <kris@amongbytes.com> Thu, 23 April 2026 21:33 UTC

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On 23/04/2026 17:18, Muhammad Usama Sardar wrote:

> [...] have consumed significant WG energy
Yes.
>  The more I read about these PQ thingies, the more worried I become. 

The pqc-forum is the right venue for surfacing concrete concerns about 
ML-DSA, and they would genuinely welcome hearing about any new 
cryptanalytic results. ML-DSA isn't a recent arrival: Dilithium was 
submitted to NIST PQC in 2017, went through three rounds of open 
cryptanalysis. In those ~9 years of public scrutiny by both academia and 
industry, there has been no meaningful progress toward breaking it. 
Hence, I'm sure any new results will be very interesting.

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