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tl;dr DJB is trying to stop the NSA railroading bad crypto into TLS standards, the objections deadline is in two days, and they're stonewalling him This /. sto
by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
tl;dr DJB is trying to stop the NSA railroading bad crypto into TLS standards, the objections deadline is in two days, and they're stonewalling him
This /. story fills in the backstory: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/23/226258/cryptologist-djb-criticizes-push-to-finalize-non-hybrid-security-for-post-quantum-cryptography https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/23/226258/cryptologist-d...
Normal practice in deploying post-quantum cryptography is to deploy ECC+PQ. IETF's TLS working group is standardizing ECC+PQ. But IETF management is also non-consensually ramming a particular NSA-driven document through the IETF process, a "non-hybrid" document that adds just PQ as another TLS option.