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Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers

www.theregister.com Google adds post-quantum encryption key protection to Chrome

QC crypto-cracking coming in 5, 10, maybe 50 years, so act … now?

Google adds post-quantum encryption key protection to Chrome

Devon O'Brien, technical program manager for Chrome security, explained on Thursday that starting in Chrome 116 – due August 15 – Google's browser will include support for X25519Kyber768, an alphanumeric salad that desperately needs a catchy name.

The unwieldy term is a concatenation of X25519, an elliptic curve algorithm that's currently used in the key agreement process for establishing a secure TLS connection, and Kyber-768, a quantum-resistant KEM that last year won NIST's blessing for post-quantum cryptography.

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