I would humbly disagree.  I believe this working group has enough bandwidth to 
handle a couple of postquantum drafts (along with all the other drafts the WG 
is working on).  I believe that this is especially true because we pretty much 
agree on the contents – what we have disagreements about is whether or not to 
endorse those contents.

That said, if the working group decided to delay the hybrid signature drafts, I 
wouldn’t complain too loudly – those would also depend on the work in the LAMPS 
working group, and so they’re less likely to be immediately useful.

From: Rob Sayre <say...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2024 4:26 PM
To: Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer) <sfluh...@cisco.com>
Cc: John Mattsson <john.mattsson=40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org>; Loganaden 
Velvindron <logana...@gmail.com>; TLS List <tls@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [TLS] Re: PQ Cipher Suite I-Ds: adopt or not?

Hi all, since I am still on the CC list,

I took the question to be about how to organize the work. If everything is a 
priority, there are no priorities.

That's why I want to do this one (and only this one), first:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/

Some of the other ones look like they could benefit from waiting, in the sense 
that contentious points might resolve themselves over time.

thanks,
Rob

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer) 
<sfluh...@cisco.com<mailto:sfluh...@cisco.com>> wrote:
TL;DR: Historical notes: not important for the current discussion.

To be clear about whether Cisco (or actually, me – I don’t actually speak for 
Cisco, but I like to think they listen to my advice) preferred NTRU or NTRU 
Prime – I actually didn’t have a strong opinion.  I advocated NTRU because it 
made it to round 3 (rather than stopping at round 2 as NTRUPrime did), and so 
it appeared to be a bit more mature (that is, having more cryptanalysis).  If 
there was a general consensus towards NTRU Prime, we would have happily gone 
along.

Other than that, John summarized the situation well – Cisco (or actually, 
Cisco’s lawyers) are happy with how the IPR issues around ML-KEM were resolved 
and are going forward with that (with both pure and hybrid).

From: John Mattsson 
<john.mattsson=40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2024 9:02 AM
To: Loganaden Velvindron <logana...@gmail.com<mailto:logana...@gmail.com>>; Rob 
Sayre <say...@gmail.com<mailto:say...@gmail.com>>
Cc: TLS List <tls@ietf.org<mailto:tls@ietf.org>>
Subject: [TLS] Re: PQ Cipher Suite I-Ds: adopt or not?

The thread starts with “Due to this, Cisco has preliminarily considered Kyber 
unusable”
This is obviously not true anymore as Scott very clearly stated that Cisco 
wants to see both hybrid and non-hybrid ML-KEM standardized, and that they want 
to implement and ship both. I agree with Scott. Also, I think Cisco was quite 
clear on that if the IPR uncertainties regarding ML-KEM was not addresses, 
which they were, they wanted NTRU, not NTRU Prime
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-fluhrer-cfrg-ntru-01

Mozilla is obviously shipping ML-KEM in Firefox. I am an avid user of Firefox, 
and I am happy to see X25519MLKEM768 on more and more webpages.
Cheers,
John

From: Loganaden Velvindron <logana...@gmail.com<mailto:logana...@gmail.com>>
Date: Monday, 23 December 2024 at 02:56
To: Rob Sayre <say...@gmail.com<mailto:say...@gmail.com>>
Cc: TLS List <tls@ietf.org<mailto:tls@ietf.org>>
Subject: [TLS] Re: PQ Cipher Suite I-Ds: adopt or not?
If there are some patent concerns regarding ML-KEM going forward, Would
considering NTRU-Prime as a less risky option for TLS Kex?

(Please see this thread:
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscourse.mozilla.org%2Ft%2Fpatent-license-for-kyber%2F128114&data=05%7C02%7Cjohn.mattsson%40ericsson.com%7Cb49fe1a69fb24e159b5808dd22f5004a%7C92e84cebfbfd47abbe52080c6b87953f%7C0%7C0%7C638705157893766686%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Fi1LM1Q49lgZfAwBOQf5HhvEXZccY%2Bjk9VXHg6yHEaU%3D&reserved=0)<https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/patent-license-for-kyber/128114>

There is a section about patents here: 
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fntruprime.cr.yp.to%2Fwarnings.html&data=05%7C02%7Cjohn.mattsson%40ericsson.com%7Cb49fe1a69fb24e159b5808dd22f5004a%7C92e84cebfbfd47abbe52080c6b87953f%7C0%7C0%7C638705157893782148%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=T%2B2Ggx2ZxAV%2BCwqSvtrUlptlGHO9iYCFpCYf4Cq3xlA%3D&reserved=0<https://ntruprime.cr.yp.to/warnings.html>


On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 02:53, Rob Sayre 
<say...@gmail.com<mailto:say...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I only support an adoption call for this one:
>
> https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fdraft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cjohn.mattsson%40ericsson.com%7Cb49fe1a69fb24e159b5808dd22f5004a%7C92e84cebfbfd47abbe52080c6b87953f%7C0%7C0%7C638705157893792936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D3lsZ10f5cHom9RHdadaPqHt0bSWb6Q6Cz53MBbq1PM%3D&reserved=0<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/>
>
> The other ones seem like they could wait, carefully noting that postponement 
> is not a "no" vote.
>
> thanks,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:21 PM Martin Thomson 
> <m...@lowentropy.net<mailto:m...@lowentropy.net>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, at 08:59, Sean Turner wrote:
>> > Is the WG consensus to run four separate adoption calls for the
>> > individual I-Ds in question?
>>
>> I would like to see adoption calls for the key exchange modes and not the 
>> signature modes.  The key exchange documents are both more ready and more 
>> urgent.
>>
>> The question of whether to set Recommended = Y for any particular choice is 
>> separable and can wait.  Keep things as Recommended = N for now.
>>
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