When will post quantum resistant HTTPS protocols be a thing?
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?
Oh I fully agree. However, the people that control the purse strings in business will not take IT security seriously until something bad enough happens that it either makes the news or affects them directly.
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.
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.
Yeah, I feel like it's going to take both browser vendors shaming sites once a standard is developed/finalized and something like a quantum version of whynohttps.com to drive adoption.
The problem really is the store and decrypt nature of it. It could be used against old data so the time when it needs to be implemented is before it becomes possible to decrypt. I feel like people aren't good about planning like that and tend to be more reacting to what is currently possible.
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