Cloudflare Accelerates Post-Quantum Security Roadmap, Targets 2029 for Full Implementation
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Summary
Cloudflare has accelerated its post-quantum security roadmap, now targeting 2029 to achieve full post-quantum security including authentication. The company began its post-quantum migration in 2019, enabled post-quantum encryption for all websites and APIs in 2022, and currently sees over 65% of human traffic using post-quantum encryption. This acceleration responds to recent advances in quantum hardware and software that have shortened the timeline for potential quantum attacks.
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· 5 pulledCloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum roadmap. We now target 2029 to be fully post-quantum (PQ) secure including, crucially, post-quantum authentication.
At Cloudflare, we believe in making the Internet private and secure by default.
We started by offering free universal SSL certificates in 2014, began preparing our post-quantum migration in 2019, and enabled post-quantum encryption for all websites and APIs in 2022, mitigating harvest-now/decrypt-later attacks.
While we're excited by the fact that over 65% of human traffic to Cloudflare is post-quantum encrypted...
Recent advances in quantum hardware and software have accelerated the timeline on which quantum attack might happen.
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