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Some services are slowly developing post quantum resistant protocols for their services like Signal or Tutanota. When will this be a thing for the web?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (19 children)

There are solutions currently in development, but as far as adoption goes, most sites won't use them until there is a real need.

Looking back 10 years ago, even HTTPS didn't have widespread adoption like it does now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Hmmm real need.... we need it now, lots of traffic is being harvested now for cracking later.

[โ€“] httpjames 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using a symmetric pre-shared key based VPN can help mitigate this issue. While the actual HTTPS data will still use non-PQR cryptography, Wireguard's XChaCha20 and OpenVPN's AES-256-CBC are considered safe against quantum computers since they don't use asymmetric cryptography.

Of course, you still need to trust the VPN provider.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Thats good info, thanks!

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