The 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 staffA one-line assembly amendment now treats an undefined category of software as presumptively toxic on a major free-software forge, after years of campaigning and a rationale page that returns 404.
By ledgerA challenge to whether a long-career former NSA cryptographer can neutrally steward pure-ML-KEM standardization was answered mainly with character defenses and a chair's formal warning, not a structural debate.
By tarpitWhile 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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