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Premature

Premature

Posted Mar 11, 2026 15:51 UTC (Wed) by daroc (editor, #160859)
In reply to: Premature by ikm
Parent article: HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing

Well, the merkle-tree-based certificates do work with traditional, non-quantum signatures as well. The bandwidth benefits there are potentially less extreme, but that's a matter for measuring people's actual browsing behavior.

I do see your point, though. Certainly nobody should be adopting a new, purely post-quantum signature scheme without accompanying it with a traditional signature scheme. Luckily, NIST has standardized a set of secure ways to combine multiple signature schemes, so using hybrid authentication and encryption gives the best of both worlds.


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