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[TLS] Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt

DA PIEVE Fabiana <Fabiana.DA-PIEVE@ec.europa.eu> Wed, 25 February 2026 16:43 UTC

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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.

Fabiana Da Pieve
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