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lsquic — Server negotiates only classical X25519 against a hybrid offer

The client did what the clause requires.

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Tolerated it and continued. The specification permits this but does not require it; a client that rejected it would also be conformant.

The client did what the clause requires.

What was measured

Client
lsquic — LiteSpeed lsquic + BoringSSL, 4.9.4
Test
Server negotiates only classical X25519 against a hybrid offert-classical-only
Clause
RFC 8446 §4.1.1, draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design §5 (MAY)
Class
discretionary — The RFC permits either behaviour; the report says which was chosen.
Required behaviour
Either outcome is conformant and the report says which was taken. A client that proceeds has chosen availability: the connection is classically secure and it accepted that. A client that refuses has chosen a post-quantum floor, which is a policy some deployments now require and no RFC yet mandates. No grade is attached, because attaching one would invent a requirement. What is worth knowing is that the answer is a deliberate choice rather than an accident, and today most clients cannot express it either way.
Measured
2026-09-18

Reproduce it

The suite is the judge, so the reproduction is to point the same client at the same test and let the server report what it saw.

SESSION=$(curl -sX POST https://conformance.pqcrypta.com/session | jq -r .id)
# then drive lsquic at the test URL and read the verdict:
curl -s https://conformance.pqcrypta.com/report/$SESSION.json | jq '.results["t-classical-only"]'

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