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

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 06:26:20PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> 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

Pardon the misspelling.  It's Jacob Appelbaum.

> 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.

And actually that objection holds no water.  We're back to no real
technical objections.

Nico
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