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Building a Quantum-Safe Internet: The IETF's Plan for TLS

Rich Salz is a Principal Architect in Architecture & Technology Strategy at Akamai. He has been involved in the definition and implementation of internet and security standards for more than 30 years, actively with the IETF and the QuicTLS toolkit. At Akamai, he works on making systems and customers more secure by default.

The responsibility for defining how these new standards should be adopted and used in protocols like TLS falls to the IETF.

Thanks to Akamai Chief Architect Jan Schaumann and Akamai Senior Product Manager Tim Daffron for their contributions to this post.

Contents

\r\n \r\n A glimpse into the future: Post-quantum cryptography

\r\n NIST post-quantum cryptography standards

\r\n Building a quantum-safe internet \r\n Understanding the key exchange

\r\n Securing the key exchange with hybrid algorithms

\r\n Defining TLS 1.3 as the starting point for post-quantum cryptography

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\r\n Enhancing security today…