Google adds post-quantum encryption key protection to Chrome
www.theregister.com
QC crypto-cracking coming in 5, 10, maybe 50 years, so act … now?

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.

  • Ghoelian
    5·
    11 months ago

    Your answer is much shorter and to the point, but for the people that understand things better with visuals, here’s a Veritasium video about this exact thing

    https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Timestamp 17:50 if you want to skip directly to lattice cryptography.

      Thank you for linking it! It’s a lot easier to understand when you have images to go with it, and he goes into details about the actual cryptography that I glossed over.