On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM Muhammad Usama Sardar <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi authors,
>
> Please accept my sincere apologize that it is too late in the process. I
> tried to avoid all the PQ discussions for quite some time, but I think the
> WG is giving repeated reminders that it is unavoidable. I am totally fine
> if the following clarification requests cannot be accommodated in the
> draft, but I would like to understand it anyway.
>
> Since RFC8446bis is in the publication queue, I was wondering if there is
> some specific dependency on RFC8446 compared to RFC8446bis. In other words,
> is there a good reason for using RFC8446 instead of RFC8446bis?
>

Not that I know of.


> Another question I have is about the following paragraph of security
> considerations:
>
> > The same security considerations as those described in [hybrid] apply to
> the approach used by this document. The security analysis relies crucially
> on the TLS 1.3 message transcript, and one cannot assume a similar
> hybridisation is secure in other protocols.
>
> Security considerations of [hybrid] talk about [GIACON], [BINDEL],
> [FLUHRER], [LUCKY13], [RACCOON], and [AVIRAM]. So, when the above paragraph
> says "The security analysis" in the paragraph, which one is intended?
>
[GIACON] has the main ideas, which are applied to TLS 1.3 in [BINDEL].

> In general, is it the correct interpretation of the sentence: the proposed
> hybridization may not apply even to closely related protocols like EDHOC,
> and each protocol would require its own security analysis?
>
>From a quick look I see EDHOC has a message transcript for which this
approach is certainly fine, but the devil is in the details.

Best,

 Bas


> Thanks.
>
> -Usama
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