DNSSEC, being based on UDP with a maximum packet length of 1232 bytes, is just one of many use cases where the deployment of post-quantum cryptography is going to require major protocol adaptations and in this case the introduction of request-based fragmentation to send the larger post-quantum public keys and signatures over UDP.
douglas.stebila.ca/research/pa

@fj if I was a quantum encryption algorithm, I would simply have keys about the same size as classical encryption algorithm keys

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Note that in this case we care about signing, not encryption. (Well, signing and hashing (for subdomain name masking), but ttbomk most hashes we use are quantum-secure).

If you did that, you would end up with something that requires less computation to break using currently-known primitives.

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