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

Daniel Apon <dapon.crypto@gmail.com> Wed, 29 April 2026 00:59 UTC

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From: Daniel Apon <dapon.crypto@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:59:10 -0400
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Hi, I'm bad with Github apparently.

Could someone write (or copy, in English) a summary of this issue around
merging PR into the email thread to make it simpler to read/understand?

--Daniel

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 7:47 PM David Benjamin <davidben@chromium.org>
wrote:

> I agree with EKR.
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
>> For the record, I do not think we should merge this PR. As someone said
>> earlier, when we specify A we don't need to add text comparing it to B.
>>
>> -Ekr
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM Muhammad Usama Sardar <
>> muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sean,
>>>
>>> On 28.04.26 23:24, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>>> > On 28/04/2026 21:24, Sean Turner wrote:
>>> >> Hi! The chairs have judged that there is consensus to progress this
>>> >> I-D.
>>> >
>>> > Well, that's a terse summary of a surprising conclusion. (And not
>>> > even 'rough'?)
>>> >
>>> > I think it'd be good to understand the chairs' reasoning as to why
>>> > the various objections have been sufficiently deal with.
>>>
>>> I have read recent exchanges in the thread again, checked the repo and I
>>> share Stephen's concerns. It would be helpful to understand the
>>> rationale of how several concerns have been addressed to consensus. I am
>>> specially concerned because PR [0] for statement on composites has not
>>> even been merged, as of now.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> -Usama
>>>
>>>
>>> [0] https://github.com/tlswg/tls-mldsa/pull/32
>>>
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