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phicoh 2 hours ago

It is the paradox of PQC: from a classical security point of view PQC cannot be trusted (except for hash-based algorithms which are not very practical). So to get something we can trust we need hybrid. However, the premise for introducing PQC in the first place is that quantum computers can break classical public key crypto, so hybrid doesn't provide any benefit over pure PQC.

Yes, the sensible thing to do is hybrid. But that does assume that either PQC cannot be broken by classical computers or that quantum computers will be rare or expensive enough that they don't break your classical public key crypto.

FiloSottile 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> from a classical security point of view PQC cannot be trusted

[citation needed]

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/#fn:lattices