👀 If you're worried about the upcoming "quantum apocalypse", or Q-Day, when powerful quantum computers become capable of breaking most current internet encryption methods and destroy the world as we know it the good news is that Google's Chrome browser may have just taken substantial steps to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks. The quantum-resistant cryptographic data required for publishing TLS certificates is about 40 times larger than current cryptographic material. But this size increase presents a problem: larger certificates slow down the handshake between browser and site, potentially leaving users behind. To overcome this, Google is employing Merkle Trees, a data structure that verifies large amounts of information using a fraction of the material in traditional processes. Q-Day: feared by doomsayers, prevented by data structures invented in 1979?!?

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