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EPISODE · May 6, 2026 · 12 MIN

Root Causes 614: MTC and Downgrade Attacks

from Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast · host Tim Callan, Jason Soroko

It's reasonable to believe that Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC) and traditional RSA will co-exist on the same servers for years, if not decades, during the transition to post quantum cryptography (PQC). Bas Westerbaan of Cloudflare joins us in this episode to explore the possibility of quantum downgrade attacks and what we can do about them.

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