Cloudflare moves up its post-quantum deadline as researchers narrow the path to Q-Day

Cloudflare announced it is targeting 2029 to complete post-quantum security across its entire product suite, including post-quantum authentication. The company is following a revised roadmap that Google also adopted after announcing that it had improved the quantum algorithm used to break elliptic curve cryptography. Google stopped short of publishing the algorithm, disclosing only a zero-knowledge proof of its existence. The same day, a company called Oratomic published a resource estimate for breaking RSA-2048 and P-256 … More →

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