Cultivating a robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS

2026-03-20T07:23:42Z0e877c4aa0dce6708988961373f9a54b536ba5571fbe19015f133d3388a76012
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What happened

Collection of Google Security Blog posts (Feb 2025–Feb 2026) covering multiple platform- and ecosystem-level security initiatives and mitigations. Key items: Chrome announces a program to enable quantum‑safe HTTPS using Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) and says it will not immediately add traditional post‑quantum X.509 roots to the Chrome Root Store; Chrome and the IETF PLANTS working group are prototyping MTCs to reduce TLS/CT bandwidth and performance impacts of post‑quantum cryptography. The Chrome Root Program and CA/Browser Forum ballots will deprecate 11 legacy Domain Control Validation (

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