> On May 31, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Geoff Keating <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, because TLS doesn’t support those yet.

That is not the way I read Hugo's note, and that is certainly not called for by 
this draft.  Quite the opposite.

Russ

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