Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 04:40:14PM -0400, Sean Turner wrote:
>
>> This message starts a two week consensus call on whether
>> draft-ietf-tls-rfc8446bis should prohibit key share reuse between
>> connections. ekr has already produced a PR; see [1]. Please let the
>> list know whether you do or do not support this change by 6 April
>> 2026. Please note that if you already replied in here:[2] there is no
>> need to also reply to this thread unless you changed your mind.
>> 
>> Note that as draft-ietf-tls-rfc8446bis in currently in AUTH48, this
>> may add some delay to its publication. We believe that any delay would
>> be small because we already know there are outstanding PRs that needed
>> to be worked.
>
> FWIW, I still believe that the current SHOULD NOT (reuse ephemeral keys)
> is better than the proposed MUST NOT, however that's not a battle worth
> fighting.  It seems that the prevailing wisdom is to make the change,
> and no disaster will ensue if it is made.

+1

I believe implementations and deployment that make reasonable use of key
share reuse (which I believe the earlier discussion acknowledged) will
happily continue to do so, violating the MUST NOT, and things will be
fine.

This all seems motivated by insuring against the ML-KEM patent license
that limits for what ML-KEM can be used for, to allow the IETF to say
"oh but TLS does not allow ephemeral key shared so we don't care about
that use-case".

/Simon

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