Thanks David. Change is made in https://github.com/tlswg/tls-mldsa/pull/24

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM David Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have read the document and support publication as an RFC. I expect we'll
> implement it soon.
>
> One extremely minor comment, in Section 3.2, the draft says:
>
> > If the signature or public key is of the wrong length, the client MUST
> treat this a verification failure, and thus terminate the handshake with
> decrypt_error alert.
>
> This should delete "or public key". The public key is carried inside the
> certificate. That means questions of the length *or* contents of the
> public key will be resolved at the X.509 layer, either failing in overall
> X.509 certificate parsing, or in extracting the SPKI from the certificate.
> What alert is sent will depend a lot on exactly what is processed in what
> layer by the application, so I think it is best to just not say anything.
> The signature, on the other hand, is delivered directly via TLS, so
> prescribing the alert is in scope. (Even so this sentence is a bit
> redundant since your signature verification function had better check the
> length as part of the process! *shrug*)
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM Russ Housley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have read the document, and I support publication as an RFC.
>>
>> Russ
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 9, 2026, at 3:30 PM, Sean Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is the working group last call for Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3.
>> Please review draft-ietf-tls-mldsa [1] and reply to this thread indicating
>> if you think it is ready for publication or not. If you do not think it is
>> ready please indicate why. This call will end on April 23, 2026.
>> >
>> > REMINDER: If you have not done so recently, review the TLS WG's Mail
>> List Procedures; see [2].
>> >
>> > The Chairs,
>> > Deirdre, Joe, and Sean
>> >
>> > [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-mldsa/
>> > [2]
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/ucdImHExlbOf4Q3BCG81gjzi2xE/
>>
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