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Over Half of Web Traffic Is Now Post-Quantum: What That Means

2025-10-14Alessandro Corbelli~6 min

By late October 2025, more than half of human web traffic to Cloudflare uses post-quantum cryptography. What it means, the threat it guards against, and what's still missing.

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NIST picks HQC: a second, backup post-quantum encryption algorithm

2025-03-13Alessandro Corbelli~7 min

NIST has selected HQC as a backup post-quantum algorithm for encryption, built on different math than ML-KEM. What it is, the problem it addresses, and why having an alternative matters.

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Chrome Turns On Post-Quantum Encryption in TLS by Default: What Changes and What Can Break

2024-05-16Alessandro Corbelli~7 min

Chrome enables hybrid post-quantum key exchange by default on desktop. Why it matters, what 'harvest now, decrypt later' means, and why some network gear breaks.

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