Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates
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As post-quantum signatures threaten to inflate TLS handshakes and certificate transparency logs, Merkle Tree Certificates offer a path to compact, auditable authentication. Cloudflare’s new certificate authority will support MTC issuance at scale.
Summary from Cloudflare Blog (Security).
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- DefencePost-quantum cryptographyNew encryption designed to stay secure once large quantum computers can break today's public-key algorithms.
- ConceptCertificate authorityAn organisation trusted to vouch for a website's identity by signing its certificate.
- ProtocolTLS · Transport Layer SecurityThe encryption protocol behind HTTPS: it keeps traffic between two programs private and proves who the server is.