Cultivating a robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS

2026-03-23T13:23:48Z9b60ba82d6122f7d0994be99a8bcc2c6de17113b756dfeb5bcae1923a6db9358
AI safetyAndroid securityCA/Browser ForumCertificate TransparencyChrome Root StoreGPU securityGoogle PlayMali GPUMerkle Tree CertificatesPLANTSagentic browsingapp ecosystembiometricsdomain validationkernel driver hardeningpost-quantum-cryptographyprompt injectionquantum-safescam protectiontheft protection

What happened

Collection of Google Security Blog announcements (late 2025–early 2026) covering multiple defensive and ecosystem changes: Chrome is launching a program to make HTTPS quantum-resistant by working on Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) with the IETF PLANTS working group rather than immediately adding post-quantum X.509 roots to the Chrome Root Store, addressing Certificate Transparency scalability and bandwidth concerns. The Chrome Root Program and CA/Browser Forum ballots will phase out 11 legacy Domain Control Validation (DCV) methods (full effect by March 2028). Chrome also published defenses to

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2026-03-23T13:23:48Z
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