Work

Selected public work by Selkie Cryptography and Deirdre Connolly.

Specifications

• draft-ietf-tls-mlkem: ML-KEM-only key agreement for TLS 1.3.
• draft-irtf-cfrg-hybrid-kems: hybrid post-quantum/traditional KEMs.
• draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem: X-Wing, a general-purpose hybrid post-quantum KEM.
• RFC 9591: FROST, two-round threshold Schnorr signatures.

Open source

• mlkem-selkie: ML-KEM (FIPS 203) in Rust.
• sha3-selkie: SHA-3 and SHAKE (FIPS 202) in Rust.
• sqisign-selkie: SQIsign in Rust.

Research

• StarFortress: Hybrid KEMs with Diffie-Hellman Inlining. Preprint, 2026.
• Starfighters: On the General Applicability of X-Wing. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2026.
• X-Wing: The Hybrid KEM You've Been Looking For. IACR Communications in Cryptology, 2024.
• Supersingular Curves You Can Trust. EUROCRYPT 2023.

See Deirdre Connolly's CV for more.