NSA Pushes Weakened Post‑Quantum TLS Standard to Preserve Signals Intelligence
The NSA’s SIGINT Enabling Project is lobbying the IETF to replace the stronger ‘ietf‑tls‑ecdhe‑mlkem’ with a weaker ‘ietf‑tls‑mlkem’ draft. If adopted, the diluted post‑quantum TLS could give the agency easier access to encrypted traffic, raising serious privacy and security concerns.