Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority (CA), an organization that issues the digital certificates websites use to encrypt traffic and prove who they are. The company said that its CA will issue conventional certificates and a post-quantum type called Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), with production MTC issuance scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. Cloudflare says much of the web’s certificate issuing rests on a small set of dominant CAs, so one failure … More →
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