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[TLS] Re: Complaint to ADs and IESG regarding TLS WG chairs falsely claiming WG consensus to issue an RFC for draft-ietf-tls-mldsa

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 27 May 2026 22:19 UTC

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 17:19:03 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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I think perhaps I am making too much of the problem in the signature
case.  Just be ready to switch to PQ PKIs and do it when a CRQC appears,
and otherwise take your time switching.  The biggest problem here lies
in agile trust root management <--- this is hard to do.

Nico
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