Some services are slowly developing post quantum resistant protocols for their services like Signal or Tutanota. When will this be a thing for the web?

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Who has an interest in cracking your https traffic to say, lemmy? If it’s a nationstate, they already have access to root private key certs and that attack angle will not be mitigated with “quantum” encryption. If it’s Capitalism, i.e. google-ads or whatever, then it’s a marginal utility issue. If they harvested some of your https traffic from 20 years ago, it’s pretty worthless as far as metadata for ad-targeting etc goes. I don’t really see what “quantum encryption” would gain you.