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Signal and Apple both use post-quantum.


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pas12/10/2024

I read about Signal's double-trouble tactics, but I haven't heard about Apple's.

Ah, okay for iMessage, something called PQ3[1], hm, it uses Kyber. And it's also a hybrid scheme, combining ECC. And a lot of peer review.

And there's also some formal verification for Signal's PQXDH [2].

Oh, wow, not bad. Thanks!

Now let's hope a good reliable sane implementation emerges so others can also try this scheme. (And I'm very curious of the added complexity/maintenance burden and computational costs. Though I guess this mostly runs on the end users' devices, right?)

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/ [2] https://github.com/Inria-Prosecco/pqxdh-analysis