[Cryptography] The TLS-LTS draft expires in August 2026

[Ralf Senderek]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2026, Paul Wouters wrote:

> I was the Area Director for TLS at the time. My memory is that doing an
> "LTS version" would mean there could still be future changes to the TLS
> 1.2 protocol, but the TLS WG decided to freeze all work on 1.2.

This decision doesn't need to be undone, because TLS-LTS is about a
safe implementation not about changes.


> But at what point do you stop backporting TLS 1.3 fixes into TLS 1.2,
> instead of just switching to TLS 1.3?

TLS-LTS never intended to backport anything from 1.3.

Ralf