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Bas Westerbaan

Bas Westerbaan

The Netherlands

State of the post-quantum Internet in 2025

Today over half of human-initiated traffic with Cloudflare is protected against harvest-now/decrypt-later with post-quantum encryption. What once was a cool science project, is the new security baseline for the Internet. We’re not done yet: in this blog post we’ll take measure where we are, what we expect for the coming years, and what you can do today.

The state of the post-quantum Internet

Nearly 2% of all TLS 1.3 connections established with Cloudflare are secured with post-quantum cryptography. What once was the topic of futuristic tech demos will soon be the new security baseline.