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[TLS] Re: Working Group Last Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

Muhammad Usama Sardar <muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de> Fri, 10 April 2026 14:32 UTC

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On 10.04.26 16:25, Jack Grigg wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM Muhammad Usama Sardar 
> <muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
>     On 10.04.26 15:53, David Benjamin wrote:
>
>>     This was discussed at the meeting, in meeting chat, and on list.
>>     We agreed we will not provide PQC for TLS 1.2. We need to
>>     actually do that.
>
>     I may have missed why we "actually need" to provide PQC for TLS 1.2.
>
> You are misreading David's sentence. The "that" to be done is the 
> thing agreed on, which is "not provide PQC for TLS 1.2".

oops; sincere apologies; and thanks for correction. Then I believe my 
main point still holds: we need to remove everything about TLS 1.2 from 
the draft. Is there a disagreement on that?

Best regards,

-Usama

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