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Fnord666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

In an article [wired.com] entitled "Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks", Andy Greenberg writes that Google is beginning a two year experiment to use a new form of encryption in the TLS portion of some Chrome apps and Google services. Using Ring Learning with Errors [iacr.org], or Ring-LWE to enhance the more traditional elliptic curve cryptography, Google is speculating that the combination will be resistant to quantum attacks. Whether that will be true remains to be proven however.

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