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.
By ttlInternet & Protocols
The IESG should reject solo ML-KEM for TLS and keep the hybrid safety net
An IETF-wide last call asks the steering group to publish pure ML-KEM key agreement for TLS 1.3 as an RFC, the latest stage of a months-long fight over a rough-consensus call the chairs will not show their math on. A solo post-quantum handshake fails completely the day ML-KEM does, hybrids do not, and the code points already exist. The IESG should reject it. Comments close 13 August.
By staffIETF 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.
By ttlCFRG 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.
By ttlCFRG 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.
By ttl