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From: Peter C <Peter.C@ncsc.gov.uk>
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Muhammad Usama Sardar wrote:
> The broader IETF consensus is captured in [0], since it is in
> the publication queue.

> To overturn that broader IETF consensus captured in [0],
> proponents have to come up with strong technical arguments,
> because the burden of proof here is on the proponents, not
> the opponents.

I don’t think you can point at an informative section motivating
the use of hybrid ML-DSA in one draft and claim that it blocks
the use of non-hybrid ML-DSA everywhere else, particularly
when there is already a published RFC for non-hybrid ML-DSA
from the same working group with the same use case [1].

Peter

> Sincerely,
>
> -Usama
>
> [0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-lamps-pq-composite-sigs-19.html#section-9.1

[1] RFC 9881: "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure –
    Algorithm Identifiers for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital
    Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA)".

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