[Cryptography] NSA voting on TLS encryption at the IETF TLS WG

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 06:01:21PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> Not trusting the NSA and friends is not a technical argument.  I expect
> the WGLC to pass, as it should process-wise for that reason.

Then again, Jacob Applebaum's post to the TLS WG list just now is
precisely the sort of technical argument against publishing that can
cause the WGLC to fail all by itself, and may demonstrate the point
about consensus calls not being votes.