[saag] post quantum guidance draft

Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2025 12:35:56 +0000

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Hiya,

We chatted a bit about [1] at the secdispatch session
in Montreal and the sort-of outcome was that further
discussion should be on this list. I've updated [1] a
little bit in the meantime.

I heard various reactions to [1] at secdispatch and
in subsequent chats with a few people, those included:

1. we need something like this (maybe this text or some
    other, but some general guidance is needed)
2. we don't need this, specific WGs should provide whatever
    guidance is needed, if any
3. we shouldn't bother with this at all, it's just a waste
    of time and will go nowhere

There are likely other positions on this too of course.

Given that we've probably hit 100 new PQ codepoints over
the various IANA registries (anyone counted 'em all?), I'm
clearly in favour of #1 above. #2 seems likely to make
for more confusion and be quite slow, and while #3
might turn out to be the case, I think we owe it to
people using our stuff to give it a shot.

Cheers,
S.

PS: For those who don't read the draft:-) It doesn't say
anything about what WGs should do, it's only about what
people deploying stuff ought do in the near term.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrell-tls-pqg/

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