A few notes on Post-Quantum Certificates:

  • Yes, Merkle-Tree Certificates (MTCs) are smaller than ML-DSA certs, but still pretty large
  • MTCs come in two flavors: standalone and landmark-relative; servers will need to support both
  • clients need to update landmarks frequently; how will non-browsers handle that?
  • web-PKI (MTCs) and private PKI (ML-DSA) are diverging

Things are getting more complex...

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/pqc-certs.html

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