[mswphd]

using pure ML-KEM is not a footgun. Some people may have doubts about lattice-based cryptography, despite being securely deployed in Chrome nearly a decade ago. Some people have doubts about many things. The fact that people have doubts does not make the scheme a "footgun".

[tptacek]

It is if literally the only thing you've ever read about the technical details of LWE cryptography is Daniel Bernstein.

[mswphd]

you'd probably call it "Product NTRU" then, and be a minimum a decade out of date. So you'd probably have to do all that weird shit with co-different ideals Peikert was trying to get us all to do (I know it was "right" but sometimes you need to put a muzzle on the math guys for all of our sakes).