Post-quantum key exchange for MX deployments
Cloudflare Email Security now supports post-quantum hybrid key exchange with X25519MLKEM768 on the SMTP connections we make to receive and deliver mail. Deploying Email Security in front of a provider that supports post-quantum hybrid key agreement (like Google Workspace) will create a TLS 1.3 connection using post-quantum key agreement.
Inbound MX connections and outbound delivery connections now negotiate the X25519MLKEM768 hybrid key agreement when the peer supports it, protecting SMTP traffic against harvest-now, decrypt-later ↗ attacks.
Support is backwards compatible and enabled automatically for all customers. Senders and receivers that do not yet advertise post-quantum key agreement continue to connect with classical key exchange.
This applies to all Email Security packages:
- Advantage
- Enterprise
- Enterprise + PhishGuard