Subj : [$] Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Dec 08 2025 18:30:07

[$] Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS

Date:
Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:27:58 +0000

Description:
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.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1048978/


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