A few points here:
There is already very wide use of PQ algorithms in the Web context [0], which is the most problematic one because clients need to be able to connect to any site and there's no real coordination between sites and clients. So we're exercising the middleboxes already.
replyThe incident you're thinking of doesn't sound familiar. None of the extensions in 1.1 really were that big, though of course certs can get that big if you work hard enough. Are you perhaps thinking instead of the 256-511 byte ClientHello issue addressed ion [1]
[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/pq-2025/ [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7685
Oh hey Eric. I think I was wrong saying it was 1.1. It was a middlebox that ignored max fragment negotiation, which I think was introduced in 1.2. IIRC, the middlebox claimed to support it for 1.2 connections, but silently failed by blackholing the connection. They eventually crafted a fix, but it was an annoying year waiting for network operators to upgrade the firmware on their routers.
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