News [LWN.net] [$] Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS

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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards body responsible for the TLS encryption standard — which your browser is using right now to allow you to read LWN.net. As part of its work to keep TLS secure, the IETF has been entertaining proposals to adopt "post-quantum" cryptography (that is, cryptography that is not known to be easily broken by a quantum computer) for TLS version 1.3. Discussion of the proposal has exposed a large disagreement between participants who worried about weakened security and others who worried about weakened marketability.

Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/1048978/

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