[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 07:30:25PM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM Viktor Dukhovni > wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 01:55:35PM -0700, Andrey Jivsov wrote: > > > > > I don't think that standalone ML-DSA should be adopted. > > > > > > There is time to move to a n

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 07:30:25PM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM Viktor Dukhovni > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 01:55:35PM -0700, Andrey Jivsov wrote: > > > > > > > I don't think that standal

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Andrey Jivsov
Using EdDSA as an example, we know that CA's don't just blindly sign EE certificates. They are in control of what public keys are allowed in a PQ cert, including for EE certs, and if they choose that it is standalone ML-DSA, this will have profound implications on TLS and other protocols, in a way

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:15:03AM +, Salz, Rich wrote: > > If "move to PQ" meant no hybrid stuff for TLS, I'd really wonder why. > > That’s easy to answer: “many of our members have very > hardware-constrained PoS devices.” Is that okay? It might be possible to design the key exchange such

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Bas Westerbaan
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM Bas Westerbaan wrote: > This working group has wisely focussed its efforts on post-quantum key > agreements for the last five years. It's basically done. I have no doubt > that if any unforeseen issues might arise in the final stretch, we'll rise > to the occasion.

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Bas Westerbaan
This working group has wisely focussed its efforts on post-quantum key agreements for the last five years. It's basically done. I have no doubt that if any unforeseen issues might arise in the final stretch, we'll rise to the occasion. I suppose adoption of the draft. Best, Bas On Tue, Apr 15,

[TLS] The TLS WG has placed draft-tls-westerbaan-mldsa in state "Call For Adoption By WG Issued"

2025-04-15 Thread IETF Secretariat
The TLS WG has placed draft-tls-westerbaan-mldsa in state Call For Adoption By WG Issued (entered by Sean Turner) The document is available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tls-westerbaan-mldsa/ ___ TLS mailing list -- tls@ietf.org To unsubsc

[TLS] WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Sean Turner
We are continuing with our WG adoption calls for the following I-D: Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3 [1]; see [2] for more information about this tranche of adoption calls. If you support adoption and are willing to review and contribute text, please send a message to the list. If you do not support ado

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Sean Turner
Hi! It looks like we have consensus to adopt this draft as a working group item. There were concerns raised about signaling with this draft as it relates to draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem, but we can address those via the Recommended column values, publishing one and holding the other, etc.; and, we

[TLS] Re: Extended Last Call: (The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS) to Informational RFC

2025-04-15 Thread Eric Rescorla
SSLKEYLOGFILE doesn't contain any of the asymmetric keys, but just the computed symmetric keys. However, because ML-KEM acts like ECDHE as far as TLS 1.3 is concerned, connections protected with ML-KEM or hybrid will also be decryptable via SSLKEYLOGFILE. -Ekr -Ekr On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer)
I support adoption, and I will be willing to review > -Original Message- > From: Sean Turner > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:32 PM > To: TLS List > Subject: [TLS] WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3 > > We are continuing with our WG adoption calls for the following I-D: > Us

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Russ Housley
I support adoption, and I will review. I agree with EKR that key management is more urgent, but I do not think that should block adoption. Russ > -Original Message- > From: Sean Turner > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:32 PM > To: TLS List > Subject: [TLS] WG Adoption Call for Use of

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Eric Rescorla
I do not think we should adopt this draft at this time. I would prefer the WG focus its effort on key establishment. Once those documents are complete, we can reconsider signature. -Ekr On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM Sean Turner wrote: > We are continuing with our WG adoption calls for the f

[TLS] Re: Confirming Consensus to Progress The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS

2025-04-15 Thread Bellebaum, Thomas
> Hi! At IETF 122, the chairs took a sense of the room about whether to > progress draft-ietf-tls-keylogfile. There was consensus to do so [0]. We need > to confirm that on-list. If you disagree with the consensus please let us > know, and why. We close this call at 1159 UTC on 29 April 2025. I

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 15/04/2025 18:38, Eric Rescorla wrote: I do not think we should adopt this draft at this time. I would prefer the WG focus its effort on key establishment. Once those documents are complete, we can reconsider signature. +1 to waiting 'till at least then or later, e.g. after we have more ex

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Sean Turner writes: > Hi! It looks like we have consensus to adopt this draft as a working > group item. Um, what? There were several people (including me) raising objections on list to basic flaws in this draft, such as (1) the failure to provide an ECC backup to limit the damage from further sec

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Quynh Dang
Hi TLS co-chairs, I support adoption and am willing to review. Regards, Quynh. On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM Sean Turner wrote: > We are continuing with our WG adoption calls for the following I-D: > Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3 [1]; see [2] for more information about this > tranche of adoption

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Kris Kwiatkowski
Hello, I support adoption and willing to review. -- Kris Kwiatkowski Cryptography Dev > On 15 Apr 2025, at 20:17, Quynh Dang wrote: > > Hi TLS co-chairs, > > I support adoption and am willing to review. > > Regards, > Quynh. > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM Sean Turner wrote: > We

[TLS] Extended Last Call: (The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS) to Informational RFC

2025-04-15 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG (tls) to consider the following document: - 'The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS' as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Salz, Rich
I believe I have already set that I am opposed to adopting pure PQ algorithms at this time. ___ TLS mailing list -- tls@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to tls-le...@ietf.org

[TLS] Re: Extended Last Call: (The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS) to Informational RFC

2025-04-15 Thread Sajeev S
Hi All, What about new PQC algorithms ML-KEM decryption keys ? Regards, Sajeev On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM The IESG wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG (tls) > to > consider the following document: - 'The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS' >as Inf

[TLS] Re: [Last-Call] Re: Last Call: (The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS) to Informational RFC

2025-04-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2025, S Moonesamy wrote: I will note this draft uses the procedures from RFC 8447, a product of this WG. I will not comment on the meta question of whether an Internet-Draft is a formal specification of the IETF, but in some of the TLS registries an Internet-Draft is sufficient

[TLS] Re: Boring cryptography, and the opposite extreme

2025-04-15 Thread Bas Westerbaan
For everyone's convenience: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/RsQbm_AQfzs/m/19o76lsyCwAJ On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM D. J. Bernstein wrote: > A message has just appeared on pqc-forum claiming yet another attack > improvement against lattices---improving what are calle

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Santosh Chokhani
I also do not think there is a rush or need to implement PQC authentication algorithms for TLS at this point. From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:e...@rtfm.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:38 PM To: Sean Turner Cc: TLS List Subject: [TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3 I

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Salz, Rich
ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd I do not think we should adopt this draft at this time. I would prefer the WG focus its effort on key establishment. Once those documents are complete, we can reconsider signature. I strongly agree. It might be interesting to see how often the signature algorithm doesn’t

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Rebecca Guthrie
I support adoption and am willing to review. Rebecca Guthrie she/her Center for Cybersecurity Standards (CCSS) Cybersecurity Collaboration Center (CCC) National Security Agency (NSA) -Original Message- From: Sean Turner Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:32 PM To: TLS List Subject: [TLS]

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread David Adrian
I support adoption. We ultimately will need some form of support for this in browsers. On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM Rebecca Guthrie wrote: > I support adoption and am willing to review. > > Rebecca Guthrie > she/her > Center for Cybersecurity Standards (CCSS) > Cybersecurity Collaboration Ce

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Flo D
Hi, I support adoption of this draft and am happy to review. Flo fl...@ncsc.gov.uk UK National Cyber Security Centre  -Original Message- From: Sean Turner Sent: 14 April 2025 05:02 To: TLS List Subject: [TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3 Ju

[TLS] Re: Boring cryptography, and the opposite extreme

2025-04-15 Thread D. J. Bernstein
A message has just appeared on pqc-forum claiming yet another attack improvement against lattices---improving what are called "dual" attacks and breaking earlier claims about those attacks not working; concretely, reducing "the security of Kyber-512/768/1024 by approximately 3.5/11.9/12.3 bits" bel

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Loganaden Velvindron
I understand that due to FIPS requirements, this is needed. However, I'm also going through this: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/RsQbm_AQfzs/m/19o76lsyCwAJ Personally, hybrids should be the recommended choice. I think that the I-D draft-connolly-tls-mlkem-key-agreement sho

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
Sean Turner writes: > Hi! It looks like we have consensus to adopt this draft as a working > group item. Um, what? There were several people (including me) raising objections on list to basic flaws in this draft “Consensus” is not about reaching no dissenters. It’s about the “prevailing” opini

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Andrey Jivsov
I don't think that standalone ML-DSA should be adopted. There is time to move to a non-hybrid X.509 and digital signatures in the future. This topic has implications to availability of X.509 certificates, as there is a real risk that CAs will prefer standalone ML-DSA to ethe exclusion of hybrids,

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 16/04/2025 00:02, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: I can see a case being made that this draft does improve the deployability of TLS if we start with a baseline of draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem and note that that mechanism is not deployable in some environments (I guess, ones with some kind of stri

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Rob Sayre
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM Stephen Farrell wrote: > > Hiya, > > On 16/04/2025 00:02, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > > I can see a case being made that this draft does improve the > deployability of > > TLS if we start with a baseline of draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem and note > that > > that mechan

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
Combining posts from two people into one answer. On 16/04/2025 00:02, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > I can see a case being made that this draft does improve the deployability of > TLS if we start with a baseline of draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem and note that > that mechanism is not deployable in some

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 16/04/2025 01:38, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote: Because our experts evaluated all the relevant risks, and concluded that while in theory indeed Crypto_Strength(Hybrid) = max(Crypto_Strength(ECC), Crypto_Strength(ML_KEM)), in practical deployments there are other factors to co

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Loganaden Velvindron
I would support adoption, even as experimental. On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 21:38, Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer) wrote: > > I support adoption, and I will be willing to review > > > -Original Message- > > From: Sean Turner > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:32 PM > > To: TLS List > > Subject: [T

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Salz, Rich
> that mechanism is not deployable in some environments (I guess, ones with some > kind of strict FIPS-only requirement, though I'm not conversant in the details > of such an environment). A question (not necessarily for Ben): Are there any concrete/specific environments that we know about that wi

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 01:55:35PM -0700, Andrey Jivsov wrote: > I don't think that standalone ML-DSA should be adopted. > > There is time to move to a non-hybrid X.509 and digital signatures in the > future. > > This topic has implications to availability of X.509 certificates, as > there is a

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 16/04/2025 02:53, Salz, Rich wrote: I don’t know of any, especially since NIST has clarified/changed the rules so that hybrid key agreement schemes AB are valid for FIPS if either A or B is valid, and also if it’s BA. Right, that kind of external tweaking/changing, as to what's ok o

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Salz, Rich
> Suppose the payment card industry standards (PCI-DSS) says they want > all terminals to move to PQ, and in particular MLKEM. Would that > bother you? Well, you know I'm easily bothered:-) If "move to PQ" meant no hybrid stuff for TLS, I'd really wonder why. That’s easy to answer:

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 01:55:35PM -0700, Andrey Jivsov wrote: > > > I don't think that standalone ML-DSA should be adopted. > > > > There is time to move to a non-hybrid X.509 and digital signatures in the > > future. > > > > This topic ha

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Kampanakis, Panos
I support adoption and will review. -Original Message- From: Sean Turner Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:32 PM To: TLS List Subject: [EXTERNAL] [TLS] WG Adoption Call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer)
I should have mentioned that I am willing to review... > -Original Message- > From: Sean Turner > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 12:02 AM > To: TLS List > Subject: [TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key > Agreement for TLS 1.3 > > Just a reminder that this WG adoption call

[TLS] Re: Last Call: (Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2) to Proposed Standard

2025-04-15 Thread Sean Turner
This draft is being progressed now that -rfc8447bis, which creates “D” for the Recommended column, has completed WGLC. spt > On Apr 14, 2025, at 3:11 PM, The IESG wrote: > > > The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG (tls) to > consider the following document: - 'D

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Andrey Jivsov
I am opposed to the adoption of ML-KEM at this time. The main stated benefit of using a standalone ML-KEM is complexity reduction, but with the current progress in the deployment of the ML-KEM + ECC hybrid method, a standalone ML-KEM method actually increases overall complexity in software stacks.

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:33:23PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > Nico Williams writes: > > there were no objections with technical reasons that were fatal to the > > work in question > > I disagree. For example, the draft's regression from ECC+PQ to just PQ > is certainly a technology issue; and

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I think that Nico is right to identify that at its core the question for the WG is one of policy, and Dan is right to look to the WG charter for guidance. I see two parts of the charter that could cover this work -- "[t]his goal also includes protocol changes that reduce TLS resource consumption w

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Nico Williams
To begin with, the call for adoption has not ended yet as there are still a couple of hours left. On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 08:57:47PM +, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote: > “Consensus” is not about reaching no dissenters. It’s about the > “prevailing” opinion of majority, which in this case

[TLS] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread David Adrian
Hi Dan, Draft adoption is based on rough consensus, not unanimous consent. As I'm sure you're aware, RFC 7282 states that all objections do not need to be accommodated for rough consensus to be achieved. In particular, the IETF values running code, which this draft represents. It sounds like you'r

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL writes: > “Consensus” is not about reaching no dissenters. Consensus doesn't require unanimity, but it does require fairly considering and trying to resolve each objection---which is exactly what the list records show didn't happen here. Also, _if_ resolution fa

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread Rob Sayre
DJB's numbered points are fair. There should be an answer for (1) (2) and (3) even if there isn't agreement. thanks, Rob On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM D. J. Bernstein wrote: > Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL writes: > > “Consensus” is not about reaching no dissenters. > > Consensus doesn't r

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: WG Adoption Call for ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3

2025-04-15 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Nico Williams writes: > there were no objections with technical reasons that were fatal to the > work in question I disagree. For example, the draft's regression from ECC+PQ to just PQ is certainly a technology issue; and this is fatal, as a contravention of the "improve security" goal in the WG c

[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: Boring cryptography, and the opposite extreme

2025-04-15 Thread Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
Thank you, Bas! And to save time for those who don’t want to follow the NIST mailing list trail – here’s the response from Leo Ducas posted there: Dear All, Thank you, Kevin, Charles, Yixin, Jean-Pierre for your careful analysis and report. While most of the points below are acknowledged in