Cloudflare offers free post-quantum cryptography for customers securing websites

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc announced it will provide post-quantum cryptography for free by default to help all customers secure their websites, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud tools and remote employees against future threats.

The security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, in a statement said all its customers will now be able to seamlessly migrate to the next era of cybersecurity standards–instantly and for free.

The company is making this commitment at the 2023 Summit for Democracy in support of a more responsive and resilient Internet, and will additionally publish vendor-neutral roadmaps based on NIST standards to help businesses secure any connections that are not protected by Cloudflare.

Quantum computers, which perform complex computations at an exponentially faster rate than today’s machines, are expected to become advanced enough in the coming years to decrypt much of the encrypted data on the Internet.

“At Cloudflare, we believe that privacy should be a human right and that post-quantum security should be the new baseline for the Internet, not an exploitative expense for businesses.

“That is why we are promising today to help equip businesses as well as non-profits and users with the most advanced cryptography available and to never charge for it,” said Cloudflare co-founder and chief executive officer, Matthew Prince.

Cloudflare has helped lead the development of post-quantum cryptography standards since 2018, and made post-quantum cryptography available as a beta to interested customers last year.

The company believes that over 99 per cent of websites on the Internet that already support NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography for their connections are powered by Cloudflare, and over one billion HTTP requests have been protected with post-quantum cryptography by Cloudflare since 2019.

-- BERNAMA