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Comment by westurner

13 hours ago

From Gemini then:

  Algorithm         Role
    Public Key Size   Signature / Ciphertext Size
  ECDSA P-256 (Identity / Signing)
    ~64 bytes      ~64 bytes
  X25519 (Key Exchange)
    32 bytes        32 bytes
  ML-DSA-44 (PQ; Identity / Signing)
    1,312 bytes     2,420 bytes
  ML-KEM-768 (PQ; Key Exchange)
    1,184 bytes     1,088 bytes

> If you tried to make "ML-KEM Certificates" (using a newer mechanism called AuthKEM where you authenticate by proving you can decrypt a challenge rather than signing), you would replace the ~2.4 KB ML-DSA signature with a ~1 KB ML-KEM ciphertext. This saves about 50% of the bandwidth compared to ML-DSA, but it is still roughly 35x larger than a traditional ECC certificate chain.

/? AuthKEM:

kemtls/draft-celi-wiggers-tls-authkem: https://github.com/kemtls/draft-celi-wiggers-tls-authkem

"KEM-based Authentication for TLS 1.3" https://kemtls.org/draft-celi-wiggers-tls-authkem/draft-celi... :

> Table 1. Size comparison of public-key cryptography in TLS 1.3 and AuthKEM handshakes.

  Handshake HS auth algorithm HS Auth bytes Certificate chain bytes Sum
  ...
  AuthKEM Kyber-768 2272 6152 (Dilithium-2) 8424
  AuthKEM Kyber-768 2272 2229 (Falcon-512) 4564

"KEM-based pre-shared-key handshakes for TLS 1.3" > "2.2. Key Encapsulation Mechanisms", "3. Abbreviated AuthKEM with pre-shared public KEM keys": https://kemtls.org/draft-celi-wiggers-tls-authkem/draft-wigg...

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