Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/google-tests-new-crypto-chrome-fend-off-quantum-attacks/
The search giant today revealed that it's been rolling out a
new form of encryption in its Chrome browser that's designed
to resist not just existing crypto-cracking methods, but also
attacks that might take advantage of a future quantum computer
that accelerates codebreaking techniques untold gajillions of
times over. For now, it's only testing that new so-called
"post-quantum" crypto in some single digit percentage of
Chrome desktop installations, which will be updated so that
they use the new encryption protocol when they connect to some
Google services. But the experiment nonetheless represents the
biggest real-world rollout ever of encryption that's resistant
to quantum attacks, and a milestone in the security world's
preparations to head off a potentially disastrous but
still-distant quantum cryptopocalypse.
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