I like these ideas, I wonder what speeds/niceties we could get in our TLS
impl by taking advantage of the SHA3 absorb/squeeze pattern

On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM Kris Kwiatkowski <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> ps. On the same vein -- It would be absolutely fantastic if we could get
> rid of HKDF as it is the one thing in TLS 1.3 forcing masked SHA2 on my
> chip. As a symmetric cryptography design, HKDF is about as inelegant as
> possible, and currently one of the hardest things to mask & secure in
> hardware. Arguably better SHA3-based KDFs have existed for a long time, and
> I'd like to use my masked Keccak module for KDF. But that's perhaps for
> later.
>
> And then both MLKEM.Decaps and KDF could share same masked Keccak
> implementation, reducing area needed for it.
> +1
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