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[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: Complaint to chairs regarding false claim of consensus to issue an RFC for draft-ietf-tls-mldsa

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Wed, 06 May 2026 10:35 UTC

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Hiya,

On 06/05/2026 11:31, Peter C wrote:
> 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].

We (the IETF as a whole) are indeed all over the place
when it comes to documenting PQ things;-(

I feel sorry for people who have to try figure out what
to implement and deploy.

S.

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