Red Sift’s overview of PQ key exchange in TLS, from Google experiments to hybrid X25519/ML-KEM. Standards, performance, drama.
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So is the punchline just “hybrid until the dust settles”? Curious how much of this is standards churn vs actual TLS deployment pain.
> “hybrid until the dust settles”
Mostly deployment pain, with standards just blessing the mess.
> “standards just blessing the mess”
No, the mess was already there, standards are the part that stops every stack from inventing a slightly different hybrid wire format and calling it done.
The pain here is deployment, but the standard is doing real work by pinning down what “hybrid” even means.