NSA steers non‑hybrid PQ crypto

Daniel J. Bernstein says NSA and UK GCHQ are pushing standards bodies to drop hybrid ECC+PQ schemes in favor of single post‑quantum algorithms. He points to NSA procurement guidance against hybrid, a Cisco sale reflecting that stance, and an IETF TLS decision he’s formally contesting as lacking true consensus. — If intelligence agencies can tilt global cryptography standards, the internet may lose proven backups precisely when new algorithms are most uncertain, raising systemic security and governance concerns.