On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 9:43 AM Ilari Liusvaara <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 03:20:32PM +0800, Blue Dog wrote:
> >
> > The concrete change I still think is worth considering is the narrower
> > implementer-facing guidance on deterministic versus hedged ML-DSA
> signing.
> > That guidance seems TLS-relevant because the signer behavior is not
> visible
> > on the wire, and implementers may otherwise treat the choice as a library
> > default without noticing the operational/security trade-off for
> long-lived
> > authentication keys.
>
> For TLS, deterministic versus hedged ML-DSA does not matter[1]. However,
> given that at least three people have commented about this, I think that
> maybe the specification should mention something about it.
>

This is a good suggestion. Thanks Ilari.

https://github.com/tlswg/tls-mldsa/pull/36


>
>
> [1] The randomizer only appears together with the message hash, so it
> only affects things if the same message is signed twice, which TLS
> never does (as the input includes things like client and server
> randoms).
>
>
>
>
> -Ilari
>
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