On 5/31/2019, 17:34, "TLS on behalf of Geoff Keating" <tls-boun...@ietf.org on 
behalf of geo...@geoffk.org> wrote:
    >> On 21 May 2019, at 2:08 pm, Hugo Krawczyk <h...@ee.technion.ac.il> wrote:
    >> 
    >> A clarification on the text suggest below by Russ.
    >> 
    >> The way I see it, the external PSK as used in 
draft-ietf-tls-tls13-cert-with-extern-psk is not intended as
    >> a means of authentication but as a way of regaining forward secrecy in 
case the (EC)DHE mechanism
    >>  is ever broken (e.g., by cryptanalysis or by a quantum computer).
    >
    >  It’s a bit problematic if the expected use of the draft is with 
quantum-resistant
    >  certificates...

This is not the intent/expected use. 
   
The intent is to protect the content of the session against being recorded now 
and decrypted later.

In short, no problem.

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