Cloudflare to become a public certificate authority with post-quantum certificates

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 9:00 am

Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)

Cloudflare Inc. today announced plans to become a public certificate authority that will offer certificates designed for the point when quantum computers can break current encryption. The new authority will issue a post-quantum format called Merkle Tree Certificates from the same system as conventional ones. The format is aimed at a size problem in post-quantum […]

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