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GOOGLE QUANTUM-PROOFS HTTPS BY SQUEEZING 15KB OF DATA INTO 700-BYTE SPACE
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Google has implemented a new Merkle Tree Certificate system in Chrome. It uses Merkle Trees to provide quantum-resistant assurances that a certificate has been published without having to add most of the lengthy keys and hashes. Cloudflare is enrolling roughly 1,000 TLS certificates to test how well the system works. The Internet Engineering Task Force standards body has formed a new group to develop a long-term solution for generating the distributed ledger.