Dear all,

We just updated our FrodoKEM for IKEv2 draft to version 02.

 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo/


Here are the main changes:

  *   Reduced code points from 6 in v01 to 4 now (revised Sections 3.3 and 6).

  *   Explained why variants for both AES and SHAKE are necessary (revised 
Section 3.2).
  *   Added Section 4.2 to describe the KEi(1) and KEr(1) payloads.
  *   Also, Section 4.1 has been expanded to describe the main procedures of 
running FrodoKEM (or any PQ KEM) via ADDKE.

Those changes have addressed all comments received from July 2025. Particular 
thanks go to Scott Fluhrer, Kev Kitchen, and Christopher Patton.

The authors of this draft are applying for consideration of group adoption at 
or just after IETF 124 meeting, based on that the current version is quite 
mature, and also previous extensive discussions on FrodoKEM (as recalled below).
    - Summarized discussions available on my presentation slides at IETF 122 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/materials/slides-122-ipsecme-post-quantum-hybrid-key-exchange-in-the-ikev2-with-frodokem-00
   - Over 20 discussions, most supportive, based on the recommendation from EU 
authorities.
    - The original discussion are also available at 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=Frodo&f_list=ipsec

New comments and/or reviews are highly appreciated.

Best wishes,

Guili, Leonie, and Valey.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 8:47 PM
To: Wang Guilin; Wang Guilin; Leonie Bruckert; Leonie Bruckert; Valery Smyslov
Subject: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo-02.txt

A new version of Internet-Draft
draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo-02.txt has been successfully
submitted by Guilin Wang and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:     draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo
Revision: 02
Title:    Post-quantum Hybrid Key Exchange in the IKEv2 with FrodoKEM
Date:     2025-11-04
Group:    Individual Submission
Pages:    15
URL:      
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo-02.txt
Status:   
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo/
HTML:     
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo-02.html
HTMLized: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo
Diff:     
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-wang-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo-02

Abstract:

   Multiple key exchanges in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version
   2 (IKEv2) [RFC9370] specifies a framework that supports multiple key
   encapsulation mechanisms (KEMs) in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol
   Version 2 (IKEv2) by allowing up to 7 layers of additional KEMs to
   derive the final shared secret keys for IPsec protocols.  The primary
   goal is to mitigate the “harvest now and decrypt later” threat posed
   by cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers (CRQC).  For this
   purpose, usually one or more post-quantum KEMs are performed in
   addition to the traditional (EC)DH key exchange.  This draft
   specifies how the post-quantum KEM FrodoKEM is instantiated in the
   IKEv2 as an additional key exchange mechanism.

   [EDNOTE: IANA KE code points for FrodoKEM may need to be assigned, as
   the code points for ML-KEM has been considered in [I-D.KR24]. ]



The IETF Secretariat


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