> So you'd ask each server to install say 20 certificates for each domain:  
> one for each composite?

Not quite. Each server (and opt. by symmetry, client, but let's keep it simple) 
would be given one composite certificate. This seems common practice with 
today's server software and PKI usage even outside the web, even if the server 
supports multiple certificates. That is just a special case of what I said.

I view this as the server supporting the cross product of one traditional 
algorithm and one PQ algorithm. If most clients similarly implement a cross 
product of their supported algorithms then any incompatible client will not 
support either the PQ part or the T part of the composite.
In the former case, we would have the same interop problem even without 
hybrids, and in the latter we would have it today.

-- TBB

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