Google and Cloudflare Set a 2029 PQC Deadline. The Rest of Big Tech Did Not.

Two papers dropped at the end of March. Both said the same thing in different ways: the quantum threat to elliptic curve cryptography is closer than we thought. How close? The kind of close that made Google set an internal deadline five years ahead of what the US government asked for and caused Cloudflare to immediately fall in line. And the kind of close that most of the rest of big tech is apparently comfortable watching from a distance.

Let me walk you through what those papers actually show

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