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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> Tue, 07 April 2026 23:21 UTC

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Hiya,

On 07/04/2026 21:35, Paul Wouters wrote:
> 
> The contention is whether it should be published now or later, when
> classic protections gain us little to no benefit.

 From my POV, that mischaracterises the contention. I think
the contentious issue is whether or not to publish this with
or without caveats as to when to use it, and how to encode
any such caveats in RFC/BCP text.

I do, of course, think I'm correct there, but seemingly so
do others who think I'm wrong:-)

Cheers,
S.

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