Thank you for your rapid response. I was thinking there was a potential attack 
here with convincing a peer to accept a root it shouldn't, but so long as this 
is something y'all have considered, I am not worried about it.  
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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> On Aug 20, 2026 at 03:58, tirumal reddy  <[email protected]>  wrote:
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>  
> Hi Tommy,
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>  
> Please see inline  
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>  
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 13:12, Tommy Jensen via Datatracker  
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>  
> >  Tommy Jensen has entered the following ballot position for
> >  draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-pqc-auth-11: No Objection
> >  
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> >  
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  COMMENT:
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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)
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>
>  
> Please see if the PR  
> https://github.com/tireddy2/ikev2-pqc-auth/pull/47/changes  addresses your 
> comment.
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> >  
> >  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
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>  
> >  
> >  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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