Because the common good sense says that the assurance of the ‘“old” good 
crypto’ is over, which is the whole point of this exercise. 

When your data has a long life - only PQ part matters, otherwise it’s just 
whether it will be compromised even sooner. When your data is short-lived - you 
don’t need the PQ part, and may not care if it’s present, weak, or whatever. 
—
Regards,
Uri

Secure Resilient Systems and Technologies
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

> On Feb 25, 2026, at 11:50, DA PIEVE Fabiana 
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> In my personal capacity, I have to say that in all this discussion it is not 
> clear to me yet the main issue - the reason why we would go for a path that 
> is not based on a common good sense, by removing the assurance of security 
> given by “old” good crypto. This adds up to the fact that the cost of keeping 
> it is actually cheap, and to the fact that an outstanding work has been done 
> already to deploy hybrid ML-KEM in TLS.  Hybrid ML-KEM is such a cheap way to 
> reduce risks. So, overall, I still cannot crystallize in my head what is the 
> advantage in security and costs in throwing away ECC and how to reconcile 
> this with what is pushed in my own part of the world. Not sure what would be 
> the advantage in fragmenting things now. I would like to invite all EU 
> researchers or anyway all those with whom I am contact to write to me to help 
> me increasing my understanding of the exceptional need for all this, and 
> eventually share their technical concerns, to see if they overlap with mine, 
> in case you would have time and you would be willing to do so. I thank 
> everybody here for the discussion.
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> Fabiana Da Pieve
> Program Manager
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