Google Chrome Canary dabbles with Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Read more: Google Online Security Blog: Experimenting with Post-Quantum Cryptography

"This experiment is currently enabled in Chrome Canary and you can tell whether it's being used by opening the recently introduced Security Panel and looking for “CECPQ1”, for example on Google Play. Not all Google domains will have it enabled and the experiment may appear and disappear a few times if any issues are found.

While it's still very early days for quantum computers, we're excited to begin preparing for them, and to help ensure our users' data will remain secure long into the future."​

Via ExtremeTech

 

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They meant to say "Accessable to Google" not data will remain secure. lol j/k
Great thinking on Googles part, planning like this keeps them a step ahead.
Great share Huracan

 

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Great thinking on Googles part, planning like this keeps them a step ahead.

It's temporary until they come up with "something better", according to their blog post.

"We explicitly do not wish to make our selected post-quantum algorithm a de-facto standard. To this end we plan to discontinue this experiment within two years, hopefully by replacing it with something better."