Hi Muhammad,

Your PR #22 is a duplicate of #20, please close it.

Nadim Kobeissi
Symbolic Software • https://symbolic.software

> On 8 Jun 2026, at 1:05 AM, Muhammad Usama Sardar 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> TL;DR: I have proposed 2 small PRs [0,1]. If these PRs are merged and a quick 
> FATT review [2] is done, I think I will no longer be opposed to the draft. I 
> would be fine with some wordsmithing which does not change the meaning 
> substantially.
> 
> 
> 
> FWIW, I think we need to separate two different things here:
> 
> Preference of hybrids: I believe there is already WG consensus on this via 
> "recommended" field: See PR [0].
> Formal proof: See John's 4 points below and PR [1]
> 
> 
>> 1. KEM-based key exchange in TLS 1.3 is secure.
>> 2. Hybrid key exchange following draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design remains secure 
>> unless both components are broken simultaneously.
>> 3. A compromise of the key exchange also compromises handshake 
>> authentication, not just confidentiality.
> See PR [1]
>> 
>> 4. Key share reuse breaks forward secrecy.
> I think 4 is not needed because we already forbid key reuse by 8446bis, which 
> is normatively cited in this draft.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> And even then, we’d have to say “A machine-checked symbolic analysis done by 
>> an individual”
> People doing formal analysis are very limited. IMHO, we should not discourage 
> the works of individuals by saying words like that. I believe right process 
> is to get it checked by FATT [2].
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -Usama
> 
> 
> 
> [0] https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-mlkem/pull/21
> 
> [1] https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-mlkem/pull/22
> 
> [2] https://github.com/tlswg/tls-fatt#working-group-last-call-wglc
> 
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