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The Birthday Week announcement pairs an established root and ACME-first issuance with Merkle Tree Certificates aimed…
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As post-quantum signatures threaten to inflate TLS handshakes and certificate transparency logs, Merkle Tree Certificates offer a path to compact, auditable authentication. Cloudflare’s new certificate authority will support MTC issuance at scale. #BirthdayWeekRead original on X
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an ACME-first approach, and Merkle Tree Certificates, we are building a post-quantum CA for the open web. #BirthdayWeekRead original on X
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