[TLS] Re: Algorithm agility, was Re: Re: WG Last Call : draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-08 (Ends 2026-07-08)

Salz, Rich <[email protected]> writes:

>Collaboration is hard and security often involves trade-offs.  Especially
>when national(istic) forces come into play. 

Sure, but that was really just a footnote to the main point, I was picking two
well-known and widely-deployed case studies of all-the-flexibility-all-the-
time design (IPsec) vs. Grigg's-Law design (WireGuard) to provide a
counterexample to the original claim that flexibility is automatically good.
Like rubber screwdrivers and EVA foam crash barriers, you're giving up a fair
bit of utility, and in this case security, in exchange for that flexibility.

Peter.

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