Devon O’Brien, technical program manager for Chrome security, explained on Thursday that starting in Chrome 116 – due August 15 – Google’s browser will include support for X25519Kyber768, an alphanumeric salad that desperately needs a catchy name.

The unwieldy term is a concatenation of X25519, an elliptic curve algorithm that’s currently used in the key agreement process for establishing a secure TLS connection, and Kyber-768, a quantum-resistant KEM that last year won NIST’s blessing for post-quantum cryptography.

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    1 year ago

    Timestamp 17:50 if you want to skip directly to lattice cryptography.

    Thank you for linking it! It’s a lot easier to understand when you have images to go with it, and he goes into details about the actual cryptography that I glossed over.