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[TLS] Re: New Liaison Statement, "Liaison communication to IETF regarding draft-ietf-tls-mlkem"

Bas Westerbaan <bas@cloudflare.com> Tue, 07 April 2026 16:04 UTC

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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:04:38 +0200
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>
> "On 06.04.26 02:16, Daniel Apon wrote:
>
> Also, I suppose "the middle distance" is Google's 2029 deadline now.
>
> [Usama wrote:] That seems a little off-topic. Google's 2029 deadline is an
> internal corporate roadmap
>
>
There is no benefit to deploying PQ authentication before Q-day—only
signfiicant cost. They wouldn't do it if they weren't worried. We wouldn't
do it either if we weren't.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap

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