In a four-part Last Call filing the last-call moderators appear to have blocked, Bernstein compiled 75 sourced objections, a Kyber co-designer's own warning against solo use, and a five-orders-of-magnitude cost gap. The IESG should not publish draft-ietf-tls-mlkem.
By staffThe SSHM chairs met an unanswered objection to solo post-quantum signatures with moderation threats instead of discussion. D. J. Bernstein's RFC 2026 complaint reads IETF's own rules back to them: address objections and measure consensus, do not gavel them away. The call for adoption closes 17 August.
By staffWhile the TLS working group pushed pure ML-KEM through last call, chairs repeatedly silenced the draft's most rigorous critic over a copyright protest footnote, as signals-intelligence participation went largely unexamined.
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