Root Causes 614: Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) and Downgrade Attacks

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Tim Callan

Chief Compliance Officer

Jason Soroko

Fellow

Original broadcast date

May 6, 2026

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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