GCHQ's "Peter C" pushing RFC for draft-ietf-tls-mlkem: "An Internet Draft ... is not sufficient as most SDOs (including the IETF) won't allow their standards to cite I-Ds normatively." Same Peter C yelling at opponent: "While ... is standards track, draft-ietf-tls-mlkem is not."

Jul 2, 2026, 18:07 UTCen

Replying to an earlier post

@djb

They're also getting really testy about us "regular Joes" showing up and voting against publication of the deliberately-weak solo PQ recommendation.

You can practically feel their frustration - "We stuffed this list to pass this vote, and they're stuffing it against us!".

The blatant hypocrisy of the "not standards-track" thing bugged me too when it came through the list.

Anyone who follows me and cares about cryptography or their privacy: read djb's short blurb here:

nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to/

There's action you can take to try to prevent the NSA's attempt to get the world to standardize on deliberately weakened cryptography in TLS - i.e. the thing that protects every important web connection on the planet. They have form for doing this in the past, and are trying again.

There are other links in the above page for more information.

#TLS #HTTP #HTTPS #cryptography #privacy