They Will See Johnny's Message: A Measurement Study of Post-Quantum Cryptography Across Email Delivery Paths

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jaehwan Park, Sunghyun Park, Kevin Nam, Doowon Kim)

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.36145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Harvest-now, decrypt-later (HNDL) attacks make the transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) urgent for email. This paper presents a systematic measurement that jointly examines PQC deployment across email service stages, negotiation by communicating peers, and usable message encryption.

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