> In particular when the use of hybrid crypto comes with negligible
overhead, as for ML-KEM + ECC.

X25519 is almost twice as slow as MLKEM768 (
https://blog.cloudflare.com/pq-2025/#ml-kem-versus-x25519);  P-256 is about
the same

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 5:25 PM Tibor Jager <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > Am 27.02.2026 um 21:16 schrieb Ilari Liusvaara <[email protected]
> >:
> > - There does not seem to be any evidence that ML-KEM is weak. I think
> >  that if ML-KEM gets badly broken, it will be for unforeseeable reasons
> >  (which is a risk for any cryptographic algorithm, including prime-
> >  field ECC).
>
> Except that for a hybrid mode, both ML-KEM and ECC must be broken
> simultaneously.
>
> I think it is unwise to rely *only* on ML-KEM (or any other scheme based
> on relatively new hardness assumptions), and currently do not support any
> draft that does not use hybrid cryptography. In particular when the use of
> hybrid crypto comes with negligible overhead, as for ML-KEM + ECC.
>
> For almost every broken cryptosystem there was a time when there seemed to
> be no evidence that it is weak. ML-KEM still needs to stand the test of
> time.
>
> Best regards,
> Tibor
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