NSA's SIGINT Enabling Project includes sabotaging cryptographic standards.
NSA is now overtly paying for standardization of "ietf-tls-mlkem", a weakening of the much more sensible "ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem".
Makes you wonder if ML-KEM is actually compromised.
More here.
https://nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to/
Tim Bouma
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2026-07-02 12:50:03 UTC
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