Cultivating a robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
2026-03-21T01:23:45Z•65eac51fd7c5643f47388fdddcd7fe0d59a95e6efcabbdac06097c338be8485b
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What happened
Google Chrome and Android security updates covering cryptographic migration, certificate validation, device protections, app ecosystem enforcement, GPU hardening, and agentic browsing safety. Chrome is pursuing quantum-safe HTTPS via Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) under the IETF PLANTS working group and does not plan to add traditional post-quantum X.509 certs to the Chrome Root Store; MTCs aim to reduce TLS/CT bandwidth and performance costs. The Chrome Root Program and CA/Browser Forum are phasing out 11 legacy Domain Control Validation (DCV) methods (email/phone/mail/reverse-lookup), with
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- 2026-03-21T01:23:45Z
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- Yes
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