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For what it's worth: Damien Miller has commented repeatedly here that OpenSSH did NTRU before the NIST competition completed, and they always planned to add the NIST PQ winner.

throw0101c

4 hours ago

Related to the hybrid post-QC crypto stuff, similar moves have been done for Chrome:

* https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/a-new-path-for-kyber...

Draft for adding it to TLS (1.3):

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe...

WhyNotHugo

6 hours ago

What’s ML-KEM X25519? I’m familiar with Ed25519, but I’ve never heard of ML-KEM.

(Also not a cryptographer)

homebrewer

5 hours ago

https://lwn.net/Articles/973231

ML-KEM is Kyber, the lattice-based winner of the NIST PQ KEM competition (think of a KEM as a public-key encryption and delivery of a key, as opposed to Diffie Hellman, in which both sides agree on a key together). It's a key establishment mechanism that resists quantum attacks.

marcus0x62

5 hours ago

For anyone unfamiliar with the acronyms:

PQ = Post Quantum (cryptography)

KEM = Key Encapsulation Method