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[TLS] Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-05 (Ends 2025-11-26)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 27 November 2025 19:08 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:08:16 -0800
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com>
wrote:

> Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > What's *not* compliant is if you have an implementation which doesn't
> > support P-256, no matter what other groups it supports.
>
> As I wrote in my response to Bernstein, RFC 8446 mandates ECC only when no
> application profile specifies otherwise. An application profile that
> removes ECC is compliant with RFC 8446.
>

Yes, I agree with this.

-Ekr

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