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[TLS] Re: Working Group Last Call for Post-quantum Hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Fri, 10 October 2025 17:48 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] Re: Working Group Last Call for Post-quantum Hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3
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To be clear the only change I want to see is Recommend Y by
X25519MLKEM768. I think additional registrations/choices can be added
in another document.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net> wrote:
>
> This is the working group last call for Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3. Please review draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem [1] and reply to this thread indicating if you think it is ready for publication or not.  If you do not think it is ready please indicate why.  This call will end on October 22, 2025.
>
> Please note that during the WG adoption call, Dan Bernstein pointed out some potential IPR (see [2]), but no IPR disclosure has been made in accordance with BCP 79.  Additional information is provided here; see [3].
>
> BCP 79 makes this important point:
>
>  (b) The IETF, following normal processes, can decide to use
>    technology for which IPR disclosures have been made if it decides
>    that such a use is warranted.
>
> WG members can take this information into account during the working group last call.
>
> Reminder:  This working group last call has nothing to do with picking the mandatory-to-implement cipher suites in TLS.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe & Sean
>
> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/
> [2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/mt4_p95NZv8duZIJvJPdZV90-ZU/
> [3] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/spasm/GKFhHfBeCgf8hQQvhUcyOJ6M-kI/
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