Alliance for Digital Innovation urges lawmakers to prioritize NIST funding needs for validating encryption solutions

Congressional appropriators must adequately fund a National Institute of Standards and Technology program that tests encryption solutions as the federal government moves toward protecting its networks against future quantum computing-powered attacks, according to the Alliance for Digital Innovation.

“First, we want to express our support for NIST and advocate for additional funding and resourcing to enable the more rapid examination and approval of the security underpinning these important cryptographic modules. This is imperative given the government’s efforts to move to...