Re:Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle ...
by mcpherrinm on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:19PM
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The migration here is going to be long.
Chrome and Cloudflare are doing a MTC experiment this year. We'll work on standardizing over the next year. Let's Encrypt may start adding support the year after that. Downstream software might start deploying support MTCs the year after that. People using LTS Linux distros might not upgrade software for another 5 years after that. People run out-of-date client devices for another 5 years too.
So even in that timeline, which is about as fast as any internet-scale migration goes, it may be 10-15 years from today for MTC support to be fully widespread.
Chrome and Cloudflare are doing a MTC experiment this year. We'll work on standardizing over the next year. Let's Encrypt may start adding support the year after that. Downstream software might start deploying support MTCs the year after that. People using LTS Linux distros might not upgrade software for another 5 years after that. People run out-of-date client devices for another 5 years too.
So even in that timeline, which is about as fast as any internet-scale migration goes, it may be 10-15 years from today for MTC support to be fully widespread.