Hi Tommy,

Please see inline

On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 13:12, Tommy Jensen via Datatracker <[email protected]>
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> +1 to Mike on the suggestion of requiring PMTUD (even if he wasn't trying
> to go
> so far, I am)
>

Please see if the PR
https://github.com/tireddy2/ikev2-pqc-auth/pull/47/changes addresses your
comment.


>
> I see that you define requesting certificates reusing IKEv2's existing
> mechanism (Section 3.7 of RFC 7296). I note that this uses SHA-1 hashes,
> which
> seems a bit odd as a dependency for a PQC draft. This might be fine because
> SHA-1 is clearly good enough for a current BCP, but I just want to double
> check
> that this is intentional for this draft and the reliance on SHA-1 in this
> case
> doesn't introduce any unintended consequences.
>

The SHA-1 in Section 3.7 of RFC 7296 only fingerprints the trusted CA's
public key to indicate which chain to offer; it doesn't hash or sign the
authenticated data (that uses the Identity hash with pure ML-DSA/SLH-DSA),
so it has no security impact.

-Tiru


>
> I know it's tradition for us to encourage more use of MUST, but I see the
> following MUST from Section 3.2.1 as a SHOULD in disguise. Given you've
> already
> provided the "SHOULD unless <foo>" logic in the same sentence, I would
> recommend doing a single word replacement of MUST with SHOULD.
>
> >   IKEv2 peers supporting the PQC authentication mechanism defined in
> >   this specification MUST implement IKEv2 message fragmentation
> >   [RFC7383], unless IKEv2 runs over a reliable transport (e.g.,
> >   [RFC9329]) or the underlying network is known to support sufficiently
> >   large MTUs without fragmentation issues, since PQC public keys and
> >   signatures can be significantly larger than those used in traditional
> >   algorithms.
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