Quantum computing and Harvest now, decrypt later - hype?

Chrome and Edge 124 on desktop have already rolled out quantum resistant key agreement via Kyber for supported websites (largely just Google and Cloudflare hosted).

Vanadium, Mulch, and Mull do this too on Android since a few weeks now.

You can enable it in Firefox by setting security.tls.enable_kyber to true via about:config.

Signal and SimpleX also use Kyber as part of E2EE:

Mullvad also supports similar:

Fedora/Red Hat also has some experimental stuff to work system wide:

There is little downside to layering the current crypto with eg. Kyber.
If it works, it works. If it doesn’t, the only thing wasted is a bit more bandwidth.

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