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Internet & Protocols desk
IETF draft opens debate on LLM text in standards work
Stephen Farrell and Chong Feng float norms for AI-assisted IETF mail as veterans split over disclosure versus pure personal accountability.
IETF SSH group weighs pure vs hybrid post-quantum signatures
A three-week adoption call pits NIST and FIPS-driven demand for standalone ML-DSA against warnings that new PQ code will ship with exploitable bugs.
CFRG weighs Silithium hybrid signature against Mothma
A new draft pairs ML-DSA with elliptic-curve operations for smaller hybrid signatures, drawing scrutiny over strong unforgeability, code size, and hedging.
CFRG last call opens on hybrid PQ/T KEM drafts
Bernstein objects to multiple combiners as needless complexity; MLS implementers plan immediate use of the concrete hybrids.