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SecurityOctober 15, 2026, 04:17

Post-quantum TLS breaks connections on Windows servers due to NIC offload bug

The larger ClientHello with the post-quantum X25519MLKEM768 key share no longer fits in one TCP packet, and Receive Segment Coalescing on NICs (NVIDIA/Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx, WinOF-2 driver 2.42) merges the segments with a corrupted TCP timestamp field. Windows then drops roughly half of handshakes, so phones hit ERR_CONNECTION_RESET. Fixes: disable RSC via netsh or strip the timestamp option from SYN packets at the network edge.

Post-quantum TLS breaks connections on Windows servers due to NIC offload bug
#Windows#Chrome#Firefox#Nvidia
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