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Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Devon O'Brien, technical program manager for Chrome security, explained on Thursday that starting in Chrome 116 – due August 15 – Google's browser will include support for X25519Kyber768, an alphanumeric salad that desperately needs a catchy name.

The unwieldy term is a concatenation of X25519, an elliptic curve algorithm that's currently used in the key agreement process for establishing a secure TLS connection, and Kyber-768, a quantum-resistant KEM that last year won NIST's blessing for post-quantum cryptography.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

didn't Lattice based encryption already beat quantum computers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Kyber is a to-be-NIST-standardized lattice encryption scheme.