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

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 03 April 2026 19:14 UTC

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Hiya,

On 03/04/2026 19:53, David Benjamin wrote:
> 
> I do not think this subjective risk management question of hybrids is
> worthy of all of this drama and we should just accept and consider this
> feedback.

For me, and some others, the question is worthy of the drama, based
on concerns that some issues might arise with newer algs or their
implementations. Seems like a matter of safety really, until one is
convinced of the robustness of pure PQ algs and code. You may well be,
but I'm not yet.

Cheers,
S.

PS: #include <draft-farrell-tls-pqc-is-the-better-answer> :-)

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