Comment by ysleepy
12 hours ago
Still, why endorse and practically make everyone implement an algorithm that only the NSA wants, while there is a superset already standardised.
This is about the known bad actor NSA forcing through their own special version of a crypto building block they might downgrade-attack me to.
I pay like 1% overhead to also do ecc, and the renegotiation to the non-hybrid costs 2x and a round-trip extra. This makes no sense apart from downgrade attacks.
If it turns out ecc is completely broken, we can add the PQ only suite then.
Nobody has to implement the algorithm only NSA wants! That's not how RFCs work.