Comment by raron
4 hours ago
> Since then, public cryptographic research has been ahead or even with state work.
How can we know that?
> Who knows what is happening inside the NSA or military facilities?
Couldn't have NSA found an issue with ML-KEM and try to convince people to use it exclusively (not in hybrid scheme with ECC)?
Couldn't NSA have not known about an issue with ML-KEM, and thus wanted to prevent its commercial acceptance, which it did simply by approving the algorithm?
What's the PQC construction you couldn't say either thing about?
Follow nsa suite-b and what the USA forces on different levels of classification.