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

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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] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Huh, interesting, thank you for the explanation. Somewhat surprising that can be used for asymmetric encryption, but that's probably just due to me not really having a handle on the concept. ECC at least is pretty intuitive