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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] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Who has an interest in cracking your https traffic to say, lemmy? If it's a nationstate, they already have access to root private key certs and that attack angle will not be mitigated with "quantum" encryption. If it's Capitalism, i.e. google-ads or whatever, then it's a marginal utility issue. If they harvested some of your https traffic from 20 years ago, it's pretty worthless as far as metadata for ad-targeting etc goes. I don't really see what "quantum encryption" would gain you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

True it's definitely tinfoil hat territory

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm a nobody, and I don't expect there's anyone who wants to access my encrypted traffic, but someone out there is important enough to the right people that would love to get access to that kind of stuff.