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directoron··on NSA and IETF, Part 9
That's a weak ad hominem deflection. Readers be the judge.
directoron··on NSA and IETF, Part 9
Yes, the argument is MLKEM is so dangerous that it shouldn't be used alone. Even its codesigner says so. Why is it so hard to accept?

Take a look at the crypto from the 80's and 90's. They are considered bad jokes nowadays, badly designed and easily breakable. Why would the first-generation PQC algorithms be any different? Of course they're going to be broken and ridiculed in 20 years, in ways you cannot comprehend yet

directoron··on NSA and IETF, Part 9
The argument from Roberto Avanzi is reasonable: "as a codesigner of ML-KEM myself I would not trust using it exclusively: what if it gets broken mathematically and in the classical computational model (I.e. non-quantum)? Hybrid is better, and the additional time used by ECC is not significant."