[TLS] Re: PQ Cipher Suite I-Ds: adopt or not?

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Mon, 16 December 2024 23:13 UTC

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+1.  There are people that want to implement both hybrid and pure key exchange.  This action would allow a path to RECOMMENDED = Y for both in the future.

Russ


> On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:21 PM, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, at 08:59, Sean Turner wrote:
>> Is the WG consensus to run four separate adoption calls for the 
>> individual I-Ds in question?
> 
> I would like to see adoption calls for the key exchange modes and not the signature modes.  The key exchange documents are both more ready and more urgent.
> 
> The question of whether to set Recommended = Y for any particular choice is separable and can wait.  Keep things as Recommended = N for now.